[LnxPrgr3]

I've had a car catch fire on me, while I was driving it down the Interstate. It was a good old fashioned American V6, too: a Pontiac Bonneville. Was it a sign of a design flaw? Of possible risks with gas vehicles generally? Or was driving down the Interstate just more than it could handle?

"Based on photographs of the scene obtained by the blog Jalopnik, Fisker’s cars were parked fairly close together, so whatever the initial cause, a fire in one car could quickly spread to others."

So it's possible one car sparked all of this, though we'll have to wait for a real investigation to maybe know anything.

But it's weird to point to electric cars and hybrids as a scary fire hazard. Have they forgotten the 15-20 or more gallons of super flammable liquid normal cars carry with them everywhere? These cars _work_ by containing _fire_. Hell, sometimes something in the 12V circuit gets hot and a car goes up in flames, no gas or fancy lithium-ion batteries needed.

I seem to remember a recall or two over faulty ignition wiring leading to fires in gas-powered cars in perfectly normal weather, but I can't find the one I'm thinking of in the sea of all the others Google turns up.