Fun fact, #1 cause of gas station fires is static electricity, most likely from people sliding into their cloth seats while waiting for gas to pump. This is why some states don't have the tabs that keep the pump going.
In my country you'd have to hold the handle.
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It was a freak gasoline fight accident
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I mean, you can. Probably shouldn't though.
Same counts for smoking in general.
You can do it but only once
Really depends on several factors. Such as ambient air temp, temp in the underground tanks, wind, precipitation, fuel where it isn't supposed to be...
You can do it more than once but you flip a coin every time on whether you're gonna do a Johnny Blaze cosplay.
A lit cigarette is incapable of igniting gas or its vapours, the danger comes from igniting the cigarette.
And people have gone up because of static electricity.
An electrical spark and a heat source provide different ignition methods.
Realistically, what are the odds of something going wrong unless you light up a cig while peeking right inside the fuel tank? Last year I've been taking smoke breaks at the gas stations every week near the pump with the crew working there, because I had to attend stuff in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, and wait around for potentially up to an hour with the gas station being the only inhabited place around. Still living and breathing, and I honestly don't see how it could've turn badly. Yeah, I know, vapors and stuff, yadda-yadda, but those can only be in high enough concentrations to be dangerous maybe, at worst, within a hand's reach of a tank or a nozzle? Otherwise, the station would have much worse problems than smokers.
Pretty sure all of that is fake news. It depends on deez.
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When I was young and dumb, I really tried to ignite gasoline with lit cigarettes, and it seemed impossible. The results would have been the same with water.
I'm sure it's possible in just the right conditions, but it doesn't seem easy.
Surprisingly not as dangerous as you'd think, ignition point of gasoline is higher than the typical cigarette. Not safe by any means, but under normal conditions a cigarette will not ignite gasoline vapors
The wokeist DEI Marxists are trying to silence my voice, but it is your constitutional right to be able to blow up a gas station, as long as there's people that aren't exactly like you in there.
Listen, we're not supposed to get the context of this. We're on the left. We're supposed to argue the validity and logic if we can or cannot smoke next to the pump. Literal interpretations only please.
You one a' dem liberalz? Go to hell, commie
Smoking next to a gas pump is one thing… lighting the cigarette is another.
Whose going to stop me? The smoke police?
The giant ball of engulfing fire coming out of the gas tank and pump handle might have a persuasive argument.
The workers at my local gas station go outside of the shop to smoke. I once asked them if that wasn't dangerous and they said they have a ventilation system that pushes the vapors out the other way and that it's fine to smoke here (it's still disallowed as per house rules but they don't really care)
How does one filter fire out?
I assume they meant the vapors from the gasoline, not from the cigarette.
The cigarettes literally can't set gasoline on fire (in realistic conditions)
Smokers, being simple salt of the earth folks, rarely ask themselves if maybe the problem is how they lit the cigarette.
So that Hollywood trope of using a gasoline trail as a make-shift fuse and lighting it by dropping a cigarette on it is a construct of fiction?
Edit: Damn, you're right
Ohhhhhhh
With a mesh screen.
They try anything to prevent me from propelling myself over the Antarctic ice wall.
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