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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (58325)5/1/1999 6:12:00 PM
From: Merritt  Read Replies (1) of 132070
 
To all:

My local scandal sheet's front page had a pretty spectacular fire scene of a pickup and a car engulfed in flames, along with the story, which was about a guy and his wife at a gas station filling up some gas cans in the back of their pickup truck. Fortunately no one was injured...this time.

According to the paper, Chevron USA Inc. has a technical bulletin out that says "...several fires have resulted from customers filling metal portable gasoline containers placed on plastic surfaces. They have involved a gas can in the back of a pickup with a plastic bed liner. The insulating effect of the plastic surface prevents static charge generated by the gasoline flowing into the gas can from grounding. As static charge builds it can create a static spark between the gas can and the fuel nozzle. When the spark occurs in the flammable range in the gasoline vapor space near the open mouth of the can, a fire occurs."

Apparently the couple had both a plastic bed liner and metal gas cans.
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