Did you ever run out of gas before reaching a gas station?

As a teenager I was 3 or 4 blocks from the gas station. I walked there and they actually loaned me a gas can so I could get some gas in my car and drive back to the gas station.

I don't think gas station would let anyone borrow a gas can these days

I was a backseat passenger, but I was sitting with my god mother when a guy walked up with a swollen face needing to go to the hospital, tooth infection.

So we all jumped in the car, and it was a very nice used one for her, and drive up a hill, and it died right where there was no place to pull over, just a guard rail and then a ravine going down a dozen stories.

She of course wasn't carrying anything to signal or warn people, and it was a big blind curve. She did at least listen to me to keep a gas can inside the trunk, but didn't comprehend the need to keep it filled- she wasted the gas weed wacking her parents graves.

So I took the plastic gas can, and ran up the highway as people drove around her at high speeds and honking like crazy, and cut through thorny thickets up a hill to cut a half of mile off my hike. Was sweaty as hell by time I got to fill it up. On the way back police were everywhere, fire trucks. The guy we were transporting had a warrant out for him and fled out the window at some earlier point over into the ravine and made it the three additional miles to the hospital on his own. Her car was completely smashed up, but she lived. Car perfectly crumpled from multiple hits, but kept the inner frame intact.

I told her not to vote Democrat anymore and she didn't from that point on. Didn't have a accident again after that, and always remembered to fill up the gas.

A few times.

Once just walked the few miles home.
Once started pushing my car to the station with a passenger when someone who'd passed us earlier stopped back by with a can of gas and wouldn't take any $. ( I've done this for people, too, many times, due to hurricanes )
And once on a remote rural stretch of scary, dark highway with no shoulders ( which I was parked there, anyway, at an angle next to a deep ditch with the hazards on ) when a State Trooper brought me a can of gas and wouldn't take any $ for it.

Have reached the station, or home, on fumes a few times, too, lol

I was on an interstate towing my RV and passed the exit just before the one I was to take. Just then the low fuel light came on but thought I would make it. I just saw the exit ahead when the engine started to stall and coasted to a stop. So I walked up the ramp to a gas station. Got gas, walked back to fuel the truck. Fortunately a state trouper came be and had his flashing lights to move traffic away.

It's thrilling to see just how low you can go.

My diesel 4wd has two fuel tanks - I've run out the main one several times.

Being a diesel it draws in air and the motor starts to stall. If quick enough, switching to the sub-tank keeps the motor running. If not, a little bit of manual priming of the fuel filter gets the air out of the line.

Can't do that with an EV. When the 'tank' is 'dry' the car is a dead duck, despite 60 ish percent of the 'energy' in an EV battery module being 'locked up' in the chemisty of the lithium based electrolyte in each individual EV battery cell and unavailable unless the battery module has a thermal runaway 8-)

Kinda both, had to push it to the pump, but only about 20 feet

When I was a teenager, 17 or so, and was broke all the time, I ran out of gas a couple of times.

Since then I've come close once, but only once and it was my fault for thinking "I'll stop at the next gas station". The next gas station didn't appear until, as I came down a long grade on the highway, my vehicle started to sputter. I coasted into a gas station.

Yesterday. Coming back from a very remote camp. Just enough gas to get to the gas station. If we ran out of gas a few miles back we would have to spend the night in grizzly bear country.

I've reached it just in the nick of time in the middle of nowhere creepy forest and not another station for dozens of miles.

I don't have a car, but I had a very close call with the battery of my mobility scooter earlier this week. That was the first and hopefully the only time though.

A few times when I was younger. Last time I believe I just outside of Loveland Colorado in the early 80s. Farmer came by and gave me a ride.

Not as embarrassing as an EV running out of 'fuel' before it gets to the next 'charging station'.

Both. I coasted into a gas station after running out almost a mile away once.

Hasn’t happened yet but I know it will happen to me one day

I don't recall ever running out of gas in my vehicles.

Back in the 80s it was common, because I was more broke then now

Twice in the nick of time. Literally coasted into the gas stations.

Only once when gas gauge quit working.

Have had both happen

I have experienced both situations.

Maybe once to the latter

Oh yes a few times

Ran out before arriving.

Never 😊

Once

I have more gas than Will Smith

Yes, and that's a mistake I only will ever make once

So many times

One time I ran out of gas just as I was pulling into the gas station. I quickly put the transmission in neutral as the engine died and coasted up to the pump. God truly blessed me 🙏 No pushing involved. 😎

If you ever realize that you're running on fumes with no gas station in sight, reducing your speed will extend the range for the fuel that you have remaining in the tank.

Reduce your speed to about 42 mph or 70 km/hr with your vehicle in high gear and you will achieve what's known as the 'maximum range speed'.

This is the speed which yields the maximum miles per gallon you can achieve with your car.

Another way of finding that 'max range' speed is to note the speed where your car's transmission shifts into high gear or overdrive, then add 5 mph or 5 km/hr to that speed, which will then keep the transmission in that gear without cycling in and out of gear.

If you drive right on 42mph or 70k, the transmission will cycle in and out of gear which you don't want, but adding the extra 5 keeps it in high gear/overdrive.

Then, turn on the cruise control and set the cruise speed at that desired value because it can hold it more accurately than you can and keep it on until you find a gas station.

If you run out of gas, at least you'll know that you don't have to walk as far as you'd otherwise have to had you raced like hell to run out of gas getting there!

I had an interesting one happen only yesterday. I was at a gas station when I noticed the station attendant coming out of the building with a 5 gallon gas container and filled it up with gas. Then he walked around to the front of the building and disappeared with the gas. When I drove out and went around the front where he had gone, there he was dumping that can of gas into a car that had obviously run out of fuel as it tried to enter the gas station for gas, but was still half-hanging out onto the roadway blocking traffic! So close but yet so far!

I ran out of gas on my motorcycle one time while out on a superhighway in Ontario Canada, which was 12 lanes wide in one direction and 12 lanes wide going the other direction through the City of Toronto. There was me, right in the middle of 24 lanes of traffic which was moving 75 or 80 mph in both directions, sitting on a metal barrier beside my bike now out of gas, in the middle of the afternoon on the hottest day of summer!