Quick one:
How much do those big goddam underground tanks at the gas station hold?
And no, I’m not thinking of dropping a cig butt down one of them. Though that would be pretty cool, methinks.
depends which country you’re in, the demand on the servo…and what type of fuel it holds!! so really can’t tell you how much one of those tanks holds.
BTW…a tank can’t explode unless a SPARK ignites the VAPOURS. If you drop a Cig. Butt into a pool of fuel in a well ventilated area, the Cig. will just go out. Similarly…Fire investigators can easily tell if a fire was deliberately lit in a house because the accelerant (if a liquid) will leave an unburnt area where the accelerant was.
just logic really!!
Vapors are cool, but without old Mr. Oxygen the tank will not explode from the spark either. The gasoline vapors typically displace all of the oxygen in the tank shortly after filling.
And fire investigators, IIRC, base a lot of their assumptions on the timing, locations, and number of ignition points. In a serious fire, even the area covered by the accelerant burns. This is easy to test on a small scale.