How to carry extra gas
We had a DP for several years with a 100 gallons fuel tank and a long range. For various reasons we sold it and bought a travel trailer (we miss the DP). We tow with a gas engine pickup and get abo...
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Gdetrailer wrote:classic 31 wrote:
Misinformation maybe just did a Google search of filling gas cans in back of truck several videos of fires at the pumps.
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If it is posted on the "internet" it MUST be true?
Have you EVER gave it one thought that those videos HAVE been "staged"?
Who in their right mind would just happen to be RANDOMLY standing around with a video camera or even their phone and decide to STAND their and CALMLY video a big ball of fire?
Perhaps post LINKS TO REAL LIFE REPORTED IN THE PAPERS NEWS STORIES of such a fire caused by refilling a PLASTIC GAS CAN ON OR IN A VEHICLE..
Stupid people smoking cigarettes, cigars and E cigs while anywhere near a gas pump does not count either..
Do you not realize that todays modern vehicles ALL use PLASTIC fuel tanks?
Do you not realize that the filler neck on most modern vehicles ARE PLASTIC?
Do you not realize that many modern vehicles also employ "capless" systems WHICH ARE PLASTIC?
Scare tactics..
Like I said before, my metal 15 gallon tank IS "grounded" to the vehicle frame.. so it is the same potential as the vehicle..
It's not misinformation. The culprit is static electricity. A static charge can build up as gas is being pumped into the plastic can when it is not grounded. This can happen when the can is in the back of a truck with a plastic bedliner or in a trunk of a car while being filled. The safe thing which i always do is set the can on the pavement while filling. This disipates the static build up. All you need for a fire is the static spark like when you scoot your feet across the carpet and grab onto a door knob or touch someone's ear lobe. Most gas pump fires in winter are caused by women getting back inside their car after setting the pump nozzle. When it cuts off they slide back out of the seat building a static charge then discharge it when grabbing the nozzle to hang it up. I've seen signs on gas pumps stating to "TOUCH HERE BEFORE GRABBING NOZZLE".
And by the way. The videos I've seen have been gas station surveilance cameras. Both with men filling gas cans while standing or kneeling in the truck beds or women getting out of their cars and grabbing the pump nozzle.
