Little Car for a Little Jaunt

Alexandra and I ran off to Verona for the night last Wednesday. We decided to drive so we would have a car when we got there. And this time we didn't have to rent the minibus!




Here we are in front of it in Todi. Yes, that is a pink elephant on the side, and pink and white text that says, "Naturally Chic". The car was touting its world-saving fuel economy.




Here is is at the pump along the way. It might have had great economy, but you did still have to put fuel into it.

But which fuel? Gas is so expensive here that many, many cars are sold with fuel options. This one ran on either methane or gasoline, and in this case I had found a station with methane and was filling that tank.




10 Euros of methane would take us over 200 km. Or I could put 20 Euros of gas in it to give us a quarter tank and probably not even that same distance. Cars also use GPL here, which I think is propane.

There is one other unexpected little thing in that filling picture above. There is no gas cap. The car had some sort of valve that made the gas cap unnecessary. Imagine trying to explain that to the guy at the emissions inspections station in Atlanta! I did like the idea that you couldn't possibly lose it.

Michael