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To: aimhigh

Yes, clearly it’s the fault of Blitz that 80+ stupid people poured extremely volatile gasoline onto or into an open flame source...

Gasoline is intended to be used for one purpose only and that is as a motor fuel for internal combustion engines...Operative word is “internal”...It is unsuitable for ANY other purpose...Fuel pumps have a label warning against other uses...People who fail to heed such warnings are asking to get hurt...

It’s the motor fuel of choice for over 100 years precisely because it is so volatile, and vaporizes so readily thruout a very wide range of atmospheric temperatures, desert to arctic...Flash point of gasoline is as low as -45 degrees F...

Anyone who’s fueled a vehicle on a sunny day and watched the shadow of the pump nozzle has also seen the shadow of the vapor produced when gasoline is dispensed...Somewhere within that vapor plume the gasoline/air mix produced is within the flammable range...Introduce a combustion source and BOOM!

Firefighters regard such individuals as “job security”..


15 posted on 01/26/2015 9:29:33 PM PST by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak!)
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To: elteemike
I am suing Blitz because the cans are painted red and are attractively eye-catching.

My brother-in-law Lefty saw one left by the side of the road (The source of the family's many-multi-gas can collection) and swooped over on his Harley to pick it up, not noticing the semi in the other lane. We think he woulda made it except his flip-flop got caught on the shifter. (So we're suing Harley, too.)

I IDed the body. The shorts and tee shirt was Lefty's, but the face was a little scraped off. No helmet. But anyway, the family wants Blitz to paint the cans in Camo so's they won't be lookin' so good to motorcyclists.

20 posted on 01/26/2015 10:36:28 PM PST by Kenny Bunk
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