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by Kristina Chew, PhD on June 17th, 2008

With gas prices up, drivers push closer to the end of the tank and more towing services are getting called—–don’t think I can do this and strand Charlie and me on the left lane of the Pulaski Skyway!

Bonnie Sayers
Jun 17, 2008 at 6:19 pm

This has been going on for awhile here in Los Angeles. Our gas prices are the highest in the country.
Regan
Jun 17, 2008 at 10:22 pm

Yeah. Being stuck would not be fun.
It wasn’t too long ago that I could squeak by with a twenty, and on the weekend it took 3-twenties and some change. Same car. I’d squawk more but we were paying the same per gallon price in Europe 25 years ago (where we had a teeny car and mostly rode the bus or train).

Anecdote: CA has a good Samaritan system where towing companies will be summoned by CHP to bring out a gallon of gas courtesy of the state to stranded motorists on the major freeways. Apparently there are rising cases of multiple strandings (as in weekly) or folks whose tanks are not *quite* empty. In that case they just tow off the roadway and then call law enforcement. Can’t vouch for this–just heard it on NPR.
Kristina Chew, PhD
Jun 17, 2008 at 10:39 pm

My parents in the Bay Area were doing things like just putting in a gallon to get one car from place to place—-and they are hanging onto an aging Honda Accord that gets many, many miles to the gallon (though Charlie preferred for them to drive the other car, of course).