Although fuel exhaustion, or mismanagement resulting in engine stoppage is very serious, it doesn't typically cause a fatal accident. But yes, it does happen sometimes.
Avgas prices run a very wide range based on where one buys it. In rural parts of TX and OK, it ranges $3.25-4.50. At large airports, in major metro areas it can go over $6/gal.
FBOs at airports are prohibited in most states from selling fuel in jerry cans, or putting it in a car. It's not Homeland security as much as EPA and DOT regs. They don't like avgas in cars as it messes up the emission systems. There are small airports that have unattended fuel islands, and if you can get inside the fence, you can buy all the avgas you can carry. Homeland security causes many serious problems, but if the airport guy is telling you that, he's lying about why he won't sell avgas.
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Today's Featured Article - Identifying Tractor Smells - by Curtis Von Fange. We are continuing our series on learning to talk the language of our tractor. Since we can’t actually talk to our tractors, though some of the older sect of farmers might disagree, we use our five physical senses to observe and construe what our iron age friends are trying to tell us. We have already talked about some of the colors the unit might leave as clues to its well-being. Now we are going to use our noses to diagnose particular smells. ELECTRICAL SMELLS
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