[KarlInOhio]

Just curious, how would the liquid fuels compare to solid explosives?

Explosives aren't all that high energy. For example TNT is only 4.6 megajoules/kg compared to gasoline's 46.4 MJ/kg. The thing with an explosive is that it will release all its energy at once.

I've heard that a block of C4 has the same energy as a block of butter, but I can't a reference to that, and the numbers I just looked up say that butter has a much higher energy density.

[AdSimp]

great, so the good ol boys should be trying to get gasoline to explode as fast as dynamite does. I guess there is a reason why it doesn't.