Whoops: Gasoline Mistakenly Sold as Kerosene

[tnitsuj]

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[Rage187]

lets hope Habib has insurance.

 

[Ikonomi]

Well, that's just about the most dangerous mistake I've heard about this week. I'm sure something will one-up it by Wednesday.

 

[TechnoKid]

hehehe...i bet there is heat over this in that town

 

[Analog]

P-E-T-R-O-L

"Thats a funny way to spell WATER"....

 

[TerryMathews]

1,100 gallons and no-one noticed?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: TerryMathews
1,100 gallons and no-one noticed?

Was pumped from a tanker into the underground tanks.

That area is a suburb of DC. Minimal smarts by some folks in that area. Many use kerosene space heaters to suppliment the heating system in their living quarters (if they have heat).

 

[arcas]

This apparently happens pretty frequently. Last year or the year before someone died when their space heater exploded after a gas station mistakenly sold gasoline instead of kerosene.

Always a good idea to take a whiff of it before you pour it into your space heater. There's no mistaking the different odors.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

my god, what a dumb system.

 

[rh71]

What's up with Maryland and gas stations ? They sure do get a lot of attention.

 

[ScottyB]

"That's exactly what happened at a home in Glenn Dale, Md., " - What a sh!tty segway.

 

[Eli]

Oh man.... :Q

I, for one, would be able to tell the moment I smelled it...

 

[tcsenter]

Same thing happened in Michigan a couple years before I moved. A few fires insued, one resulting in the total loss of a camper or something, but nobody was hurt that I recall. The last I remember, there was still two containers floating around somewhere that had not been recovered or accounted for.

Umm....whoops!

 

[Thegonagle]

Originally posted by: Eli
Oh man.... :Q

I, for one, would be able to tell the moment I smelled it...

What if it's a mixture of say, 400 gallons kerosene that were left in the underground tank, and 800 gallons gasoline that was pumped in by mistake?

What would that smell like?

 

[EagleKeeper]

As more of the gas is mixed into the kerosine, the kero smell is reduced (it is stronger).

When one opened up a space heater, (unless brand new) the smell of kero is noticable.

Then starting to pour the kero/gas mixture, you should notice a difference and maybe think that something is wrong.

I believe that home heating kero has a dye added to it to help prevent this mistake.