I know things like that can happen, craig. My comments, tho' true, were a bit tongue-in-cheek. When I'm way off from home I don't roll the dice with the gas gauge. But, just in case the unexpected happens and I find myself low on fuel with no stations around, my 2013 F250 will go 37 miles (at 55 mph) after it says "0 MILES TO EMPTY". I've proven that a couple times. Everyone should run their vehicle out once so they will know just how far it will go on empty. Good stuff to know. It, and the 2011, have 35 gallon gas tanks. I've driven to a gas station and put 35.2 gallons in them more than once. That's pretty much runnin' on vapors.
My son and I have several little engines on nurse tank pumps and such to keep gas in so we try to keep a 2 gal. jug of gas in the back of the truck all the time. It's gotten me out of a tight spot many times. That Jeep Wrangler has a gas gauge that plays fast and loose with the truth. Once it stranded me on the side of the road, with my wife riding, and the hand still said 1/4 full. That's one reason she won't ride in it with me anymore. She thought it was terribly embarrassing.
Anymore, I just reset the trip odometer to 0 when I fill it up. When she hits 120 miles I start looking for a gas pump.
On a side note, I once found myself stranded miles from home while checking predator traps. A driveshaft universal joint had broken, letting the back end of the driveshaft fall from the differential onto the road. I had zero tools with me, save for a pair of pliers. I found a piece of heavy trapping wire, somewhere in the back of the truck, and looped it a few times around a crossmember, above and near the rear end of the driveshaft, making a hanger of sorts for the driveshaft that would allow it to turn slowly while hanging. I got in the truck, put it in 4WD and drove it real slow back home, letting the front axle pull the truck. As long as I drove slow the driveshaft would just spin in the wire loop, but if I got too fast it would start jumping around bad. More good stuff to "tattoo on your brain, Vern", as Ernest P. Worrell used to say.
