Gas Tanker Crash and Fire
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Why are u all talkin about gas prices?
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@speedball10169 Yes that part is fully understandible. However i didnt thought USA imported pretty much any oil i thought you had all you needed?
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@dtiydr we're more effected by Iran as that's where a lot of American oil comes from and with the situation they have over there, they jacked up oil/gas prices in the U.S.
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@dtiydr yeah it's more in demand now because of their situation so the prices raised. we weren't complaining about it recently (or at least I wasn't) because the prices had dropped down and kept dropping. got down to $3.25 a gallon just a couple weeks ago and now it's $4 and up.
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@xX3movamp1reXx Didnt thought it was that high there, interesting to know.
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What happened to the poor guy who drove this truck ? Did he die ?
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fatality?
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@dtiydr in aus its sitting around the $7 a gallon mark
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@eyeofthetiger444 8 dollas would be close to here but it actually went up to almost 9$ 5 days ago (actually new record here) but it went down slightly under again yesterday.. but were pretty much used to these higher price shit by now..
So you are so effected by Greece? Suprised about that.
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@dtiydr its 4 dollars a gallon in my town. estimated to be between 6 and 8 dollars by june due to the downgrading in greece. (im not kidding)
For those of you who are wondering why the firefighters didn't rush in & immediately start extinguishing the flames, it is a safety issue. There were no lives in danger upon arrival of the Fire Dept & no real property in danger. Keeping people & vehicles away from the area while the majority of the remaining fuel burned itself off was the best thing that could be done at that time.
I'm positive that there was not enough foam on scene between all fire apparatus on scene to safely attack that fire
Firejed 1 year ago 15
Besides, applying a water stream, even with foam, to burning fuel can easily cause it to splatter endangering the firefighters. Also the water stream could possibly introduce oxygen to deep pockets of unburned fuel in the remainder of the tank causing an explosion.
In addition the less unburned fuel after extinguishment, the less the chance of reignition & less runoff to damage the environment.
Firejed 1 year ago 2