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Yes. Diesel fires are pretty rare. If a diesel truck crashes on the highway, the biggest risk is to the environment (it's pretty toxic), and to the road (dies
by londons_explore 3y ago
Yes. Diesel fires are pretty rare. If a diesel truck crashes on the highway, the biggest risk is to the environment (it's pretty toxic), and to the road (diesel dissolves asphalt).
- timw4mail 3y agoNever thought about the asphalt part, but makes some sense. From what I understand, bitumen is basically the part of oil distillation left over after you distill away all the aromatic(liquid) stuff.
- londons_explore 3y agoIt's actually pretty bad, because spilt diesel makes the asphalt much softer over the coming weeks until it's pretty much a pothole filled with gravel. It's easy to miss a small spill, and only weeks later does a hole appear in the road.
- hanniabu 3y agoSo if you hate someone you can spoil a little diesel in the road right in front of their driveway so they have potholes every time they come and go
- Tade0 3y agoOnly if you hate yourself even more, because that stuff makes its way to groundwater.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoI'm going to file this one for future reference, :p. I wonder if this is why a lot of residential roads where I live are bricks instead of asphalt. Smells much less worse in summer too. Anyway, if you really hate someone, put brake fluid on their car, it'll melt the paintwork pretty thoroughly.
- lawlessone 3y agothis explains so much.