OK. You have a greater sense of charity than me. I deal w/ beggars/manipulators/victims/lost souls every day. I get paid to be compassionate, but off-duty my charity diminishes...
So you would leave a guy 100 miles from any form of civilization just because he ran out of gas? You might as well have his death on your hands. Maine isn't like Texas, you can't just pick up a phone and call for help, the whole north west region is undeveloped. You can't just hope AAA shows up to bail you out. The logging operations up there build giant base camps just for refueling equipment because it is not practical to find the nearest town if you want to fill up. Take 5 minutes and look at a map of Maine. Specifically the area east of Jackman and north Greenville. You will find nothing but thousands of miles of dirt roads.
Even when you want to get out there are no direct roads anywhere, you have to go where they went which makes no logical sense other than what areas they have to go around (all wetlands), or where the tress they want are. There are times where getting somewhere by where you think the road should be would only take an hour but because of how the roads actually run it might take 2-3. Add to that the roads are not maintained once logging in that area stops you may not be able to do more than 15-25mph or you may have to turn around and find a different route because a bridge washed out, the road washed out, or the road was physically blocked by nature or by the company.
Basically this ENTIRE area minus the camps around some lakes (which do not have power aside from what they generate) is all undeveloped (aside from old logging roads) and is uninhabited. You will find 3-4 air fields built by logging companies to get people out if they get hurt but that is it. They only way they can even call for help is by HAM, satellite, or by relaying messages via CB from truck to truck to get someone out there. That whole area is a giant mountain range.
