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To: RoosterRedux

Divine himno methanated dust, pure Buffalo bloviation with a reflective screen, just a big cloud of what made America great. Agricultural products. Get rid of diesel and we can suffer famine in the land of milk and honey. We can thank the greenies for their march to an apocalyptic future. So, where are the little green people when we need them???

You can’t do better than swamp gas?


122 posted on 07/13/2023 6:57:56 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: himno hero
I actually saw some "swamp gas" back in the summer of 1966. There's a little town south of where I grew up where swamp gas would appear on a dirt road between a railroad track and a wetland area.

My girlfriend and I and another couple drove down and parked aside the dirt road and waited.

It was pretty amazing. A huge ball (about 8ft in diameter) of fire following behind my dad's 1962 T-Bird. We had given up and were leaving when I noticed the ball of fire was right behind the car.

I concluded that the spark from the cars tailpipe ignited the methane from the swamp which had been drawn into the vacuum created by the car as I drove along the dirt road.

As an aside, this was in the days before car mufflers had spark suppressors.

126 posted on 07/13/2023 7:07:00 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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