I heard once that a gallon of gasoline has the approx. the same power as a stick of dynamite.......

Mike B. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Beierl 
  To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
  Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 10:45 PM
  Subject: Re: Was: dead cat kills van- What About Bad Gas

  At 03:39 PM 3/21/2009, Greg Potts wrote:
  >an accellerant for the campfire of your next bus gathering.

  I've seen someone get a big surprise after putting a quart or so of
  gasoline on a big pile of brush and throwing kitchen matches at it
  from about as far away as you can throw a kitchen match.

  I'm not sure if the bigger surprise was the great big FOOMP! or when
  he went looking for his eyebrows later.  His young son and I were a
  lot farther away and we still found it pretty surprising.  Of course
  that was *good* gas.

  But I'd suggest if you're not already experienced with mixing
  campfires and gasoline, to look on You-Tube for some of the folks who
  got it wrong, first.  The stuff's a lot closer to black powder than
  it is to kerosine.

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