I filled my car up again in Spokane for $28. something. I was on empty. I usually don't let myself get that low. I don't want to take chances of being stranded. Oh well I was in a city and I can just take a bus to a gas station and buy a can and put gas in it and go back to my car and put some in it and then go to a gas station and fill it up.
If you let your car run completely out of gas, you shorten the life of your fuel pump if you have one inside your gas tank.
I wonder why?
If the fuel pump is designed to go into the gas tank, the gasoline in the tank cools the fuel pump. If you let the tank get completely empty then the fuel pump overheats and this shortens its life.
Don't forget, being a submersible pump, it uses the liquid it pumps as a lubricant during operation. Once the pump runs dry there is no lubrication on the internal parts and dry running a submersible pump kills it quickly!
BTW, this is true of externally mounted, electrical fuel pressure pumps, as well, such as those used in almost all cars, without fuel tank mounted pumps, which have manifold injection systems for engine fuel control.