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Default Transporting 20 gallons of gas in your trunk and storing in your back yard in the open air question

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"Steve B" wrote:



I sure thats 1 gallon of gasolene vapor not 1 ounce

reply: He's obviously not stating correct information. To say that a car
cannot ignite from the force of a collision is plain ignorant. I saved a
guy's life one time on the freeway. His car stalled, and he was rear-ended
and boom, a fireball. We pulled him out through the driver's window.


No, to say that a car CAN ignite from the force of a collision is
ignorant. The force of a collision can put a hole in the gas tank and
the force (or more precisely the aftermath while the force of the
collision is dissipated) can cause a spark that ignites the vapors
escaping from said tank. But a car can not ignite merely from the force
of the collision. Otherwise you could BBQ about every day on the
highways of America in multiple places.

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