[Gasification] Fwd: For Your Safety from Shell Oil Company - THIS IS NOT A JOKE! Clash of technologies.

[Ronald Hongsermeier]

Dear Dr. Thomas Reed,

Pardon me, but I think you're being somewhat imprecise in your language 
here. I think you might be right that air laden with gasoline fumes must 
be displaced. If you put 15 gals of something in it displaces 15 gallons 
of something else. This is why we don't allow smoking on the apron at 
the airport. However, a cigarette burning or a piece of glowing ash 
thereof is a completely different animal than the energy level generated 
by a cell-phone. Jet fuel is considerably different than gasoline, is 
considerably different  from diesel, etc.  _And_ 15 gallons of 
gasoline-fume-laden air being mixed with ambient air is not the same as 
15 gallons of fuel. Also, don't most gasoline pumps recover at least 
part of the fumes?

I have only tanked with gasoline for a short period here in Europe and 
on too seldom trips to the USA over the last 20 years and I think that 
people talking on cell phones while their tanking is bad practice just 
because I think you should concentrate while doing so. If we tank an 
aircraft with passengers on board at the airport, a full crew from the 
airport fire department has to stand by mounted up, suits on with the 
pumper engine running. So I think it also good practice when you're 
filling up your car that everyone get out and stretch their legs, make a 
potty stop, etc. Everyone will be in a better state of mind and body 
afterwards.


regards,
Ronald von Handyheaven


On 18.03.2012 08:34, Thomas Reed wrote:
>> Dear EVERYONE OWNING A CELL PHONE!
>>
>> (I presume this will reach thousands of people.  If each of you sends 
>> the warning to your friends, it will reach millions, and third round 
>> could reach more billions than there are on earth!
>>
> WHEN YOU FILL A FIFTEEN GALLON FUEL TANK, FIFTEEN GALLONS OF HIGHLY 
> COMBUSTIBLE GASOLINE POUR OUT ON YOU AND THE GROUND.
>
>> READ THE WARNING below from my friend Michele LeJeune, and KEEP YOUR 
>> CELL PHONE AWAY FROM HYDROCARBON FUMES WHEN REFUELING YOUR CAR!
>>
>> Pass it on to your lists of friends and we will save thousands of lives!
>>
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