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You probably keep multiple gallons of gasoline nearby, tho.

• evan_ 8y ago
  Not to mention the giant propane tanks that many houses in rural areas already have
  • JoeAltmaier 8y ago
    Not the same? Shoot a propane tank, it leaks. No oxygen in the tank. There is very little outside compressed gas that can explode disastrously without oxygen. A tank of compressed gas is probably high up on the 'bomb in the house' category. Just under the water heater I suppose.
  • IkmoIkmo 8y ago
    Or the LPG tanks hundreds of millions of people have in their homes outside the developed world. e.g. India, Brazil, much of North Africa etc. They're considered quite safe, though.
• JohnJamesRambo 8y ago
  Gasoline has to be mixed in a perfect ratio with air to be dangerous and explode. A simple leak from that enormous amount of air storage could be catastrophic. A leak of your gas tank and it just piddles out on the ground.
• bdamm 8y ago
  Air is far more explosive than gasoline. Gasoline is practically docile compared to the equivalent energy stored as compressed air. When a vessel of compressed air ruptures, it almost instantaneously decimates everything around it with a powerful shockwave. Think of a popping balloon, but scaled up 10000x. You think a hot water heater is bad? Just imagine the entire house being demolished in a second. Gasoline, on the other hands, just burns in a hot concentrated fire. It takes entire minutes to kill that which is nearby.