dainthomas
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Mythbuster is (are?) your friend. They threw a cigarette in a puddle of gasoline and exactly nothing happened.
You are completely full of shit. A cigarette is not going to ignite diesel. I use diesel all the time for starting fires. Burns nice and hot, and not too quickly, allowing green wood enough time to get a good fire going. Alternatively, I use used motor oil mixed with gasoline, but that's a little too smoky. The firemen around here use diesel when starting controlled burns. Reason: Diesel doesn't "blow up." Gasoline blows up when in the right air/fuel ratio. A cell phone is NOT going to ignite diesel fumes, nor is it going to ignite gasoline fumes. A lit cigarette poses a minimal risk (10's if not 100's of thousands, or even millions of people fuel up each day while smoking, yet fires cause by the lit cigarette (as opposed to lighting it) are quite rare) *Lighting* a cigarette where there's an open flame poses a far greater risk, else a static spark right by the gas nozzle where vapors are more likely to be in the correct ratio with air to ignite. Most of the air surrounding the gas station has zero risk of ignition. You could walk around with a giant lit torch and not ignite anything, so long as you stayed a foot or so away from the nozzles.
The argument about vapors being too concentrated near the surface of the gasoline - uhh, how did the cigarette get there? Teleportation? It would ahve to go through an area where the concentration poses an ignition hazard.
edit: You can get diesel to "blow up", but it requires a pressure through a small orifice to create a very fine spray.
Isn't it death threats you are thinking of?
Mythbuster is (are?) your friend. They threw a cigarette in a puddle of gasoline and exactly nothing happened.
Tell me about it I tried to cook eggs on my iphone and it didn't work.The Cell Phone bit at gas stations is completely misguided and an urban myth. Just like Cell Phones can cook eggs or cause cancer.
The Cell Phone bit at gas stations is completely misguided and an urban myth. Just like Cell Phones can cook eggs or cause cancer.
Actually, I was referring to the forum rules comment about death "wishes" being against the rules, but if you weren't too busy trying to be a dick at every possible moment, you may have figured that out.
try this. Put that same gas in a container, leave about 25-50% volume as air. Let it sit outside in the sun. Put a lit cigarette next to the opening as you open it.
Probably won't post back for a while if you follow those steps.
LOL @ uA burning cigarette isn't hot enough to light gas on fire. I've thrown a lit cigarette in a container of gas before and it just went out. I always smoke by the pump. Now if you see someone lighting a cigarette while pumping. Thats a problem.
Dunno where you're from but here in so cal, I've never seen anyone dumb enough to smoke at the pump.
Cell phones being dangerous at a gas station?
Mythbuster is (are?) your friend. They threw a cigarette in a puddle of gasoline and exactly nothing happened.
How about hush up next time and let the adults talk next time you are trying to figure out what I meant?
Someone filling a container with gas for their lawn mower spills some gas on the pavement. A passenger gets out of their car and drops their cell phone, it hits the pavement , cracks the screen and generates a spark.
When people become comfortable around dangerous things is when accidents happen. People tend to think like , they refill their car everyday, they haven't been hurt before, surely those warning signs are used because they have to be, there is no real danger .
Only because he'll get high from gas fumes. I know it's hard let go of a preconceived idea, but you're wrong, get over it.
Why do you always have to be such a dick head?
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