No way of knowing, where we'll be going, our adventures never end.
This story is a sequel to Car Wash
You never know what you'll find when out driving. A pegasus pony encouraging me to stop at a gas station? Sure, why not.
Additional character tag: Lolligiggle
Written for Admiral Biscuit's challenge/request/not-a-contest for more slice of life fics featuring ponies working on Earth:
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/869870/story-notes-labor-day-plus-a-challenge-to-readers
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My first thought when seeing the title for this fic was that they would be refueling their car by somehow stuffing an actual pegasus into the tank, which in retrospect seems silly of me, but there it is anyway.
The actual fic is much more adorable than that anyway.
I don't drive much, but even with a nine-tenths filled tank I'd have to stop for this.
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Lol! I'm not sure how many miles a car can get per pegasus, nor do I want to find out. That has the makings of a good Rainbow Factory style of story, but I've never been good at writing grimdark/horror stories. I'll stick to adorable, personally.
The title is a play on Exxon's old slogan: "Put a tiger in your tank." Mobil and Exxon merged more than twenty years ago, so they're the same company these days.
More ponypower
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Like I said, silly.
Well, I wasn't even thinking of anything that morbid, I was just thinking that you'd somehow squeeze the pegasus into the tank, and it'd curl up and get comfortable while it's...pegasusness...did something to make the car go.
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Earth ponies would probably be a better choice, seeing as they have been used as a prime mover for 4-4-0 locomotives...
Using a pegasus (or multiple pegasususes) to pull something would probably not be all that far fetched. Traction kite technology and control has gotten to the point where we have a kite-assisted container ship (albeit a technology proof-of-concept)
I could see a pegasus team strapping themselves into some sort of modified sled-dog harness arrangement and pulling articulated lorries along the motorways...
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Oh my gosh, I love that idea. That sounds super cute too!
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As alternative fuels go, I'm all in favor of harnessing my car to a team of pegasi (or earth ponies). The way gas keeps going up, it might be cheaper to hire a team of ponies...
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Speaking of alternative fuels, been thinking of looking more into the second-gen Volt sometime, and I'm almost sort of curious if there's anyplace that'll do an autogas conversion on the gasoline portion of one... (Among other things, for something that would spend most of its time running around town on electric and mainly use the combustion engine on trips out of town, fuel that won't go stale or form who-knows-what in the tank if it doesn't get used very fast would seem to be a really nice benefit...)
Came across this and, since the truck was at the former Alameda Naval Air Station, parked across the street from an active International Trafficing in Arms Regulations site, my mind immediately leapt to the conclusion that "Pegasus Transportation Inc." was not a transport company run by pegasi, but one that transports pegasi for nefarious purposes. Still working on Putting Together a Team to rescue them.
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(edit: add Wikipedia link for those not aware of what ITAR are).
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PHEVs like the Volt and comparable Honda Clarity use pressurized tanks to keep the fuel stable over long periods. Due to the pandemic I've only been needing to refill about every six months, and it's perfectly fine.
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Well, it also has other benefits besides basically unlimited fuel stability.
Generally burns cleaner than gasoline (and carries fewer contaminants around with it in general) as well, meaning your oil stays cleaner for longer. (And also the oil doesn't get gradually diluted by gasoline over time like it otherwise would, which is apparently a thing?)
Obviously the oil would still need replaced at some point anyways, because the additive packages break down with use, but you could still look at it either as extending the oil interval, or if you change at the same interval anyways just to be safe, then as keeping the oil in better condition throughout that interval than it otherwise would be (which in turn is obviously better for the engine).
Oh, and I guess that the cleaner burning would probably give the enviro-types less excuse to complain about it still having a combustion engine.
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If you write that idea as a story I volunteer to pre-read/edit.