Jay Honeck wrote:
There are far too many pilots who make the knee jerk statement that
fuel exhaustion is the mark of a bad or poor pilot. As you point out,
fuel exhaustion is not always a failure of the pilot to put fuel in the
aircraft. I've had a couple of incidents when my engine quit with a
fuel problem. It was a fuel system problem.

Then, by definition, you did NOT "run out of gas." You had a mechanical
problem.

That was kind of where I was headed. G