[supercat]

First, I have to ask why you think that gasoline with blended ethanol is even an issue. That’s not the point of the article or the safety objections folks like me have against ethanol. The worry here is ethanol production and storage facilities, and the millions of tanker trailers, tanker cars and tanker barges that will be transporting pure ethanol every day if ethanol becomes a major factor in American energy.

I think the issue is that while it's not too hard to swamp 10 gallons of burning ethanol with 100 gallons of water, it may be harder to swamp 1,000 gallons of burning ethanol quickly enough to ensure that the mixture is too dilute to burn by the time it spreads.

[Mr. Silverback]

Exactly. It’s just that the guy I was responding to was acting like people were freaking out over gasoline with ethanol in it, and the concern was just what you’ve said: Large amounts can’t be diluted fast enough with water.