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Jun. 2nd, 2008 01:51 pmOK, so I know this a bit of racial stereotyping (where "race", in the broadest sense, means American drivers), but this made me chuckle.
Apparently a few drivers in America think that economizing on fuel implies putting less in the tank when you go to the gas station, rather than actually driving fewer miles.
The AAA guy quoted in the National Examiner showed how intrinsic the use of a car is to the American populus.
I guess that people have an allocation of, what $30 a week for gas, and that's what they put in. When it was 99 cents a gallon (and I recall seeing this price in Las Vegas) this meant that you often got a nice $30 'holiday'. Now that the price is $4, it means that you run out of petrol.
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In the Philadelphia area, where the average price for a gallon of regular broke $4 on Friday, calls from out-of-gas AAA members doubled between May 2007 and May 2008, from 81 to 161, the auto club reported.
In Dallas, Courtesy Patrol - a roadside assistance program operated by the sheriff's department - reports a doubling in the number of daily fuel calls from stranded motorists in recent months. Sheriff Lupe Valdez herself recently came to the aid of a mother and her two children who had run out of gas along an interstate.
Apparently a few drivers in America think that economizing on fuel implies putting less in the tank when you go to the gas station, rather than actually driving fewer miles.
The AAA guy quoted in the National Examiner showed how intrinsic the use of a car is to the American populus.
"Some of them are embarrassed. ... They say, 'I was trying to make it till Friday,' and they couldn't do it," said [AAA roadside assistant] Siley, who has assisted numerous out-of-gas motorists.
I guess that people have an allocation of, what $30 a week for gas, and that's what they put in. When it was 99 cents a gallon (and I recall seeing this price in Las Vegas) this meant that you often got a nice $30 'holiday'. Now that the price is $4, it means that you run out of petrol.
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