Living Like Ed - (Page 80) Another option, when it comes to natural gas, is a flex-fuel vehicle, one that can run on natural gas and that can also run on either gasoline or diesel fuel. As the name suggests, a flex-fuel vehicle gives you more flexibility, since you can run on readily available gasoline or diesel when you can’t find a natural gas filling station—and they’re not easy to find as of yet. RACHELLE’S TURN We had some, um, adventures with a flex-fuel car that Ed used to own, which ran on natural gas and gasoline. We traveled RACHELLE’S cross-country in that car one time, and Ed had this old map TURN of all the natural-gas filling stations. Now, they don’t have an infrastructure for this stuff. It doesn’t exist. We’d go to these places where there’s supposed to be a tank of natural gas, and they’d be like, “Oh, no, three years ago they got rid of that.” But Ed was determined that he would find natural gas. So he would drive around for an hour in a city—burning natural gas while looking for natural gas—instead of just going to a gas station and filling up with gasoline until we could get to the next 80 natural gas station. On more than one occasion, we would go to a place and it would just be a stump. And then we’d be in the boondocks with not enough gas. And I would always be on pins and needles, wondering if we were going to make it across the country. It was never dull. But I did it once. One time. That was it. Oh, and remember how I wouldn’t take the electric car to the hospital when I was in labor with Hayden? Well, that meant we had to take the other car, which was this same natural gas flex-fuel car. So we get in, and we go out of the driveway toward the street, and Ed takes a left, and that’s a funny way to go, because the hospital is in the other direction. Then he gets on the freeway and heads completely in the wrong direction. I asked, “Where are we going?” And Ed says, Flex Your Fuel “We’re out of natural gas, so COST: from about $18,460 (MSRP) we have to go to Glendale.” Now, we live in Studio City, living like Ed transportation-related emissions.
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