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To: Clean who wrote (1358)1/15/1999 4:13:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 34857
 
Spilled gasoline is the problem. With the return line sytems at gas stations in the USA, you just can't get a fire otherwise. The fear over cellphones is weird and comes into the category of 'we don't understand it so it must be scary and dangerous'. There is a weird dichotomy between Disneyland and the real world in the USA. Somehow I imagine people who die in car accidents or by shooting don't actually bleed in the USA.

The benzene from cigarettes and carcinogens in toast, coffee, bacon, barbecues and from Valueman's diesel exhaust [1 nitro pyrene for example] will kill people long before they die from benzene in gasoline - unless they wash their hands in the stuff or use it as a cleaner.

Even if you spill gasoline, then light it, you won't get much of a fire unless you really try hard. Spillage is usually very small even here where we don't have vapour return.

CDMA cellphones are about as safe as you can get anything. Unless bumbling people who can't walk and chew gum try to use them while driving. The radiation damage is as near zero as things come. Try lighting gasoline with one and see how long it takes you. Maybe if you throw 1000s hard onto concrete, once in a while you'll get a spark from broken battery connectors shorting.

Catalytic converters get red hot at times. Those are a much better source of ignition and could light spilled vapour - maybe!

Gasoline transport and distribution is very very safe!

So are cellphones.

Food, coffee, other plant toxins and benzene from cigarettes kill millions.

Maurice
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