Winter driving habits

[mtbc]

Even in our mild part of the carse it has been below freezing. I noticed that this triggered an old habit for me: in the US, where winter weather was rather more severe for us, I developed the habit of keeping the gas tank reasonably topped up: I did not want to be stopped in a tailback behind an collision on the freeway choosing between staying warm and having enough fuel to continue. This morning I caught myself trying to remember if the car has plenty of fuel. (It has a half tank for sure.) I suppose that it makes sense to still have those thoughts seeing as I look forward to returning to the US once our children are fledged.

In Dundee, forty minutes before sunrise I passed a bicyclist without lights. Perhaps they were balanced by the car sitting in the lot at work with its headlamps on. I sometimes wonder what people are thinking.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

I never like to let the car get below a half a tank. So I completely understand this.

And a bicyclist without lights is trying to commit suicide.

[mtbc]

These days in normal life here I do let it run a bit close sometimes because of a lack of appealing gas stations on normal routes. I've never run out though!

[emyrys]

When I was first living out on my own, I used to always run my tank to empty and it spent a lot of time under half full. One winter day, the car just stopped in the middle of an intersection in rush hour traffic. :/

That's how I found out about gas lines freezing and that I should keep my tank full or near full in the winter!