Suspicious. If it were natural gas, it could explode maybe. But does crude oil explode? I don’t think so.
It could still be an accident of some sort, but it seems suspicious to me, on the face of it.
No idea what happened, but there is no doubt it will be either an accident or a careless cause reported eventually.
Maybe a leak in the pipe caused the oil to spray out in a fine mist, and coincidentally, the cold air and heaps of metal contributed a spark forming, causing said explosion...
Of course, given how we've heard rumors and allegations about how terrorists were targeting our energy infrastructure, primarily oil, in what would be an attempt to push our economy into a recession... Well, it isn't that difficult to entertain the possibility that the "accident" had a little help.
Also, one of my more paranoid ideas is that an American liberal would arrange for such "accidents" with the hope that a recession would force our nation into the necessary crisis to end the war in Iraq, and elect Democrats to both elected branches.
Just so you know, I don’t listen much to my paranoid voices in my head. I just like to entertain these ideas as distant possibilities as a matter of playing out scenarios.
Ummmm, it'll "explode" if someone put a bomb under it... other than that, it probably just burns.
The pipeline in Bellingham, WA exploded, killing two young boys who were playing with fireworks. The pipeline had been damaged by construction and went undetected for who knows how long. The product leaked into a creek, the kids went down to the creek to set off illegal fire works and.....
It was horrible.
The media calls any eruption of flame an explosion.