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oldmattb
Jan 08, 2014Explorer
old guy wrote:
hey, don't be telling him stuff like that about eastern Oregon. We have had it nice a quiet for many years and we like it this way. we are a nice place to visit, just don't move here. That is what a Governor of Oregon told the people of Calif many years ago.
We entered eastern Oregon with over a half a tank of fuel. We drove nearly 150 miles looking for a station with diesel that was open on a Sunday. We went through many tiny towns with closed stations or no diesel pumps. We drove many miles with the gauge showing below empty. We finally decided that at the next town we would disconnect the car, my wife would stay with the motorhome, and I would go hunting alone.
The station in that town had diesel in an above ground tank sitting on wood pallets. It was pumped by an old Mobil pump that had to spin like crazy to keep up with modern prices. (I think we paid about $5.50 a gallon.) I pumped 1/2 gallon more fuel than the rated capacity of the tank.
A week later, I was changing the fuel filters at the side of the road. I wonder where the dirty fuel came from?
Matt B
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