Do you carry?
Folks: There are times each of us has nearly run out of fuel on a trip. Has anyone carried a 5 gallon can of fuel as a spare "just in case"?
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Mickeyfan0805 wrote:
Is it really that bad heading west? We will be doing a Western swing in 2019 and have to fill up every 200 miles. If it's really that bad out west, I may have to rethink this issue!
It's not super common, no. But going from White Sands to Petrified Forest is pretty much the middle of nowhere, between Alamogordo NM and Springerville, AZ it's 285 miles and there are 2 gas stations, one of which isn't going to fit any sized RV, so if the other had been closed/out of gas/etc I would have needed to use my reserve. There's also no cell coverage through most of the area as it's military bases, national forests, and tribal lands. To me it was just prudent to be ready and it literally cost me almost $0 since I already had the cans for filling my riding mower (some extremely minimal hit to fuel economy for the weight, if I was worried about that I certainly wouldn't be pulling the big sail behind me!)
