Re: [MV] Diesel vs Gas

just truckin' in my (gamma_goat@plazma.net)
Mon, 02 Feb 1998 10:27:10 -0800

At 12:00 PM 2/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Message text written by Joe Baker
>>I'll stand by my opinion that diesel is far safer than gas...
><
>
>No doubt. Simple experiment:
>
>Take a coffee can of Diesel #2 half full and drop a lit match into it. It
>will go out, extinguished by the fuel itself.
>Do the same thing with a half filled can of gas and stand back and get the
>hot dogs and marshmallows on the sticks.
>
>Dave

might i suggest being nowhere near the cofee can when you do the match
trick, and be outside?

My mother is the planning coordinator for the cherry point oil refinery.
she was on the fire team, etc.
In the course of the "how do you deal with the fact that you work at a
bomb" discussion, it came to light that one of the first things they do in
the case of a fire is fill the storage tanks to the top.

apparrently this is because if it's full it burns, if it's not it explodes.

I know most of you prolly start yer campfire with a 5 gallon gas can <grin>
but it's not too hard to lose all the hair on your head with this test.

-dd

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