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Filled my gas tank up a millimeter from full today.
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2019-08-11 at 3:49 AM UTCI kinda don't like driving around with a full tank because... thats a full tank of gas that could explode if I got into a bad accident. I would like to always drive around with less than an 8th of a tank if I could. I'd also like to just only ever go out driving really early on sunday mornings when theres no traffic, its nice.
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2019-08-11 at 5:29 AM UTCActually, the explosion is 3-5 times bigger and much more powerful, when you have only a quarter tank of gas left in the tank. Chunks of the car will end up sticking out of walls and fences. With a full tank, the explosion is pretty localized, a low humph, and not much debris flying at all. Best to always keep your tank full.
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2019-08-11 at 7:58 AM UTCthe car's more efficient with less petrol in the tank because there's less weight to lug around but you lose it to evaporation faster
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2019-08-11 at 8:07 AM UTCI always to keep a full tank, but that's mainly my paranoia about a sudden war developing with Iran, which would close the straits of Hormuz and send oil prices high overnight. That stupid jedi shit's been going on since at least 2001 too.
I know it's less efficient, but you can do things like being more conservative in your driving and increasing tire pressure that will compensate. -
2019-08-11 at 8:10 AM UTCwhere I live the streets would just turn into open-air parking lots if fuel became prohibitively expensive, so it wouldn't really matter if I had any
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2019-08-12 at 12:01 AM UTCWorked as a certified pyrotechnician for 10 years, and in special effects for 15, just to get that out of the way.
Don't worry about explosions etc. while driving with a full tank. if you get in a car crash, and the tank ruptures, and the fuel ignites, your car most likely won't explode. The reason why gas tanks explode when they do, is usually because while gasoline in itself isn't flammable, gasoline vapor is, and if you've got an almost empty, but intact tank, you will have a lot of vapor in a confined space. When this vapor is heated (for example by a burning car) to the auto-ignition temperature, it will ignite, causing an explosion. No open flame in direct contact with the gasoline is needed. I've seen this demonstrated when I got my pyro license. With a full tank, the gasoline might start boiling, but that doesn't mean it's reached the critical temperature in order to ignite it.
If you die in, and because of a car fire, you'll most likely be slow-cooked. Or, "roasted" is probably a more accurate description. If the smoke doesn't kill you first. But don't worry about being blown up. If memory serves, about 90% of the people who dies due to a car fire could have been saved, if the bystanders had gotten their thumbs out of their asses and helped the victim out of the burning wreck, but because of Hollywood's portrayal of what happens when a car catches on fire, by far most are too scared to get near the wreck.
Yes, cars explode, but they do so very rarely.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-08-14 at 6:09 PM UTCI like driving around with a full tank better because the added weight makes the ride a little better. I also don't like driving the car near empty because the car starts sucking more of the collected water into the engine, which doesn't happen neearly as much as soon as you dilute the engine a bunch by filling it with more fuel.
My EVIL sister's car shut toff in the middle of traffic in the summer one time and it was probably because of the humidity so she put a bottle of heet in and it was fine after that. -
2019-08-14 at 6:19 PM UTC
Originally posted by SHARP Worked as a certified pyrotechnician for 10 years, and in special effects for 15, just to get that out of the way.
Don't worry about explosions etc. while driving with a full tank. if you get in a car crash, and the tank ruptures, and the fuel ignites, your car most likely won't explode. The reason why gas tanks explode when they do, is usually because while gasoline in itself isn't flammable, gasoline vapor is, and if you've got an almost empty, but intact tank, you will have a lot of vapor in a confined space. When this vapor is heated (for example by a burning car) to the auto-ignition temperature, it will ignite, causing an explosion. No open flame in direct contact with the gasoline is needed. I've seen this demonstrated when I got my pyro license. With a full tank, the gasoline might start boiling, but that doesn't mean it's reached the critical temperature in order to ignite it.
If you die in, and because of a car fire, you'll most likely be slow-cooked. Or, "roasted" is probably a more accurate description. ..
I'd have to disagree with that. I've personally seen a guy working under his dashboard on the electrical system, standing ten feet away watching him work, and suddenly sparks shoot out, and within minutes, and I mean literally two minutes, 120 seconds, the entire car is totally engulfed in flames. Even the garage it was in the roof burnt so bad it had to be replaced. We tried to put it out in that two minutes, but it was way beyond control already. It just went from zero to all-in. The plastics and materials they use in these cars, the dashboard, the wiring, the seats, the upholstery, the console, are extremely combustible and don't even extinguish with water. So if the fire from the gas explosion doesn't kill you, it's still enough to ignite some of the combustible materials the car is made of, which leads to a total fireball. -
2019-08-14 at 6:26 PM UTCshut up nobiody cares what yoyu think kid
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2019-10-06 at 4:35 PM UTCSo Speckles, you disagree with the fact, that gasoline in liquid form can't explode, because your buddy burned down his garage? Right, I guess that makes sense to someone like you...
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2019-10-06 at 4:36 PM UTC
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2019-10-06 at 4:45 PM UTCNo, but for some odd reason, probably lack of knowledge, you decided to disagree when I pointed out gasoline in liquid form won't explode. I'm not even sure you know what you mean...
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2019-10-06 at 4:50 PM UTCLol SHARP, how've you been. How in the world did you find us here?
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2019-10-06 at 6:50 PM UTC
Originally posted by Sophie Lol SHARP, how've you been. How in the world did you find us here?
I'm doing ok, I don't keep spiders anymore though, it took too much of my time and I kind of lost interest, on the other hand, I started spearfishing instead, and have been doing that for some 6-7 years now, resulting in a healthier lifestyle. Apart from all the beer, of course.:-D
I don't remember how I found this place, probably through Google, in an attempt to figure out what happened to everyone after Zoklet went down. You wouldn't happen to have seen Morb around somewhere? -
2019-10-06 at 6:52 PM UTC
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2019-10-06 at 6:58 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL Actually, the explosion is 3-5 times bigger and much more powerful, when you have only a quarter tank of gas left in the tank. Chunks of the car will end up sticking out of walls and fences. With a full tank, the explosion is pretty localized, a low humph, and not much debris flying at all. Best to always keep your tank full.
^^^Complete nonsense -
2019-10-06 at 7:01 PM UTC
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2019-10-06 at 7:06 PM UTCeverything spectral learned in his 63 years on this planet he learned from youtube videos
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2019-10-06 at 7:23 PM UTCOnce the dummies are all out of facts, they inevitably fall back to the tired old ad hominids.
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2019-10-06 at 7:28 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL Read post #2 again, dummy. Try to follow.
You really are dense, aren't you...
Now let me break it down for you real quick:
1. Needledick doesn't want to drive around with a full tank, fearing an explosion.
2. I tell him there's very little chance of that happening, and that en empty tank is a lot more dangerous.
3. You disagree and mention your ham-fisted buddy burning down his garage, as an argument.
4. Then you post a video proving my point exactly.
And now you want to argue about what, exactly? Do you even have a point, or do you just want to disagree to argue? Know what, I don't really care, as always you're a waste of time...
