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by duskwuff
980 days ago
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> Putting ten gallons of highly toxic and flammable fuel into a car-shaped object just to commute one person a few dozen miles is quite literally insane from all practical points of view. And there's another 10-20 gallons of various oils in the engine and transmission. While they aren't nearly as volatile as the gasoline, they're still quite flammable. Really, it's a wonder these things were ever allowed. :) |
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1. Off by an order of magnitude: ~4-6 quarts of oil in the motor, about the same for the transmission yielding for a large motor about 2 gallons total.
2. duskwuff says >"they're still quite flammable."< Nonsense. Engine oil is so hard to burn that it is not classified as flammable by OSHA:
https://firefighterinsider.com/is-motor-oil-flammable-you-ma...
Furthermore these oils are encased in heavy metal (the engine block, the transmission block and the differential casing).
Starting batteries (the 6- and 12-volt kind) cause more fires than do engine and/or transmission oils.
To paraphrase Charlton Heston: "I'll give you my gasoline car when you can pry it from my cold, greasy, dead hands."