holstein13 wrote:
Not that I'd want to inject any logic into this heated emotional discussion, but I'd go even further and ask, why not require that all cars be turned off BEFORE arriving at the pump and then be pushed in to position and pushed out before starting their engines? After all, other cars are at the pump refueling and here you are driving past them, hitting the brakes, jumping in and out of your seat and finally injecting voltage into your starter and accelerating past the other people fueling all while your engine is running. In fact, you and your super hot exhaust may drive right over a spill from the previous guy in line. If we are concerned about running engines causing fires, shouldn't we prevent all running engines near the pumps?
I thought it an entirely reasonable question. I had hopes of a discussion on the difference between flammable and combustable. Perhaps a touch on vapor pressures or maybe even a mention of partial pressures in the context of Boyle's Law. I didn't think there would be a mention of flame propagation rates, but I was hopeful…….
Instead, what I got was an example of how common clear rational thought is. A demonstration of why Oprah is popular and why America is governed the way it is.
Happy Thanksgiving!
