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Out of Gas

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  I haven't had much to say about the Metris over the winter, because well... A midwest winter is just plain boring.  I can say that I fully appreciated the heated leather seats though!  We only had a little bit of snow, and the vehicle seemed to handle it fine, but it was not as solid on the stuff as our Eurovan was.  Down the road, we may consider different tires.  But with some unseasonably warm weather, and the coming of Spring, we started up our adventures earlier than usual.  In mid February, we took a trip to Indiana to visit my Mom and brother's family.  We didn't need to sleep in the Metris, and this is a trip we have done before, so the real adventure (apparently) was to see if we could make the trip on one tank of gas.  We got to my brother's place just fine, and the next morning when headed out to visit my mom, Hubby reminded me to get gas first thing.  I had not really used the dash computer fuel consumption thing, and I tried to...