[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Gasoline is fairly dangerous too. Time to restrict sales of this dangerous bomb making material too.

[CharlesWayneCT]

And do you know how many gallons are stored in containers within 3 miles of the White House? I shudder..... with laughter.

What possible difference could it make how close they can store the stuff to the White House? Any real terrorist would store it out in the middle of nowhere and build the bomb out there. They wouldn't try to produce the bomb within 3 miles of the white house, since they would still have to drive it in close enough to cause trouble.

[theBuckwheat]

I wonder how many RVs park close to the White House, or on the street outside of any number of bureaucracies in the downtown DC area and have propane gas bottles, another of the most dangerous substances known to man?

[El Gato]

Gasoline is fairly dangerous too. Time to restrict sales of this dangerous bomb making material too.

And that other ingredient required for an ANFO bomb, fuel oil, although diesel will work as well. So will gasoline, or a mixture of all three, or any two. There are also substitutes for the ammonium nitrate for the role of oxidizer. AN is just the easiest to find and procure.