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Re: Ooops
why anyone would..?
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but nooope.
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Yogi is right, gasoline does not burn, only the fumes it emits.
The way underground storage tanks are designed, the chance of one exploding is next to nil.
In the old days, vents were often located behind gas stations, for air to enter and exit the tank.
Now they use a gas fume recovery system, as you pump gas into your car, the fumes from your tank are sucked up by the gas nozzle. Some states may not have implemented this, or had it and done away with it.
When they first started doing it this way, I thought it most dangerous, because now we had an open system to the underground gas tanks right where an accident could easily happen. Sucking air into the underground tanks from the point where the gas is dispensed sounded scary to say the least.
But the system does not work quite like I envisioned it, so perhaps it is good that it keeps all those fumes out of our air.
The most dangerous element at a gas station is your own empty gas tank!
The way underground storage tanks are designed, the chance of one exploding is next to nil.
In the old days, vents were often located behind gas stations, for air to enter and exit the tank.
Now they use a gas fume recovery system, as you pump gas into your car, the fumes from your tank are sucked up by the gas nozzle. Some states may not have implemented this, or had it and done away with it.
When they first started doing it this way, I thought it most dangerous, because now we had an open system to the underground gas tanks right where an accident could easily happen. Sucking air into the underground tanks from the point where the gas is dispensed sounded scary to say the least.
But the system does not work quite like I envisioned it, so perhaps it is good that it keeps all those fumes out of our air.
The most dangerous element at a gas station is your own empty gas tank!
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The pump filler nozzles on our gas stations back home have a spring loaded rubber sleeve that seals the gas tank opening, so no fumes get into the air while filling.
The gas stations down here do not have that seal, but they do have holes in the side of the double sleeved filler nozzles that air is sucked into when you are filling your tank. Because of this, we don't smell any gasoline fumes around the gas stations here either. Unless someone overflows their gas tank, hi hi...
You can stand around all day tossing lit cigarettes into a bucket of gasoline and never get the fumes to ignite.
That being said, a lot of cigarettes used to contain saltpeter, which is what made the little spark every so often when smoking. I don't know if they still do or not, but that spark is supposedly hot enough to ignite gasoline fumes, if the air to fuel mixture is just right.
Some clothing creates hotter static sparks than ever produced by a cigarette. Which is why you should always touch something metal that is grounded before attempting to fill a gas tank.
In low humidity areas, static discharge is all too common. If you are wearing the wrong clothes, everything you touch gives you a static shock, hi hi...
The gas stations down here do not have that seal, but they do have holes in the side of the double sleeved filler nozzles that air is sucked into when you are filling your tank. Because of this, we don't smell any gasoline fumes around the gas stations here either. Unless someone overflows their gas tank, hi hi...
You can stand around all day tossing lit cigarettes into a bucket of gasoline and never get the fumes to ignite.
That being said, a lot of cigarettes used to contain saltpeter, which is what made the little spark every so often when smoking. I don't know if they still do or not, but that spark is supposedly hot enough to ignite gasoline fumes, if the air to fuel mixture is just right.
Some clothing creates hotter static sparks than ever produced by a cigarette. Which is why you should always touch something metal that is grounded before attempting to fill a gas tank.
In low humidity areas, static discharge is all too common. If you are wearing the wrong clothes, everything you touch gives you a static shock, hi hi...