01-18-2010, 01:36 AM
I see we have a bit of a language barrior bud. When I used the word gas I ment that stuff you get out of the gas pump at the gas station. I think you call it Petrol....liquid gas. The other type at the pumps here is Deisle fuel which does not explode or burn like regular car gas or petrol does. It has a far higher flash point.
When you talk about regular every day car gas or petrol it is not the gas in it's liquid form that readily burns, it's the fumes or the invisable gas that it turns into when it is left exposed to the air. Thats why when you are refueling your car at a petrol station you are supposed to shut your engine off,turn your cell phone off and put out your ciggeretts as these three items all have an ignition source for gas vapours.
When your car hits that wall at 60 MPH it comes to a sudden stop, everything under the hood is hot including the exhaust system. Electrical components may well be shorting and causing sparks, Gas line ruptures under pressure and the fuel vapours move forward at a rapid pace like everything else in a sudden stop at that speed. They come into contact with a heat source hot enough to ignite and there you have it.
You have to remember also that there are safty measures in place to try to stop this from happening. The problem is that in order for the car manufacturers to build new cars and increase fuel miliage while maintaining profits they had to reduce safty standards which is something you are not made aware of. Those crash test safty standerds we all know about and relate our safty to....well they are preformed at 15 kilometers per hour, thats around 9 MPH.
When you talk about regular every day car gas or petrol it is not the gas in it's liquid form that readily burns, it's the fumes or the invisable gas that it turns into when it is left exposed to the air. Thats why when you are refueling your car at a petrol station you are supposed to shut your engine off,turn your cell phone off and put out your ciggeretts as these three items all have an ignition source for gas vapours.
When your car hits that wall at 60 MPH it comes to a sudden stop, everything under the hood is hot including the exhaust system. Electrical components may well be shorting and causing sparks, Gas line ruptures under pressure and the fuel vapours move forward at a rapid pace like everything else in a sudden stop at that speed. They come into contact with a heat source hot enough to ignite and there you have it.
You have to remember also that there are safty measures in place to try to stop this from happening. The problem is that in order for the car manufacturers to build new cars and increase fuel miliage while maintaining profits they had to reduce safty standards which is something you are not made aware of. Those crash test safty standerds we all know about and relate our safty to....well they are preformed at 15 kilometers per hour, thats around 9 MPH.