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According to Wikipedia, the injuries from gasoline in these communities resulted from deliberately using it as an inhalant (to get intoxicated). This can hardly
by greenyoda 3y ago
According to Wikipedia, the injuries from gasoline in these communities resulted from deliberately using it as an inhalant (to get intoxicated). This can hardly be compared with standing at a gas pump outdoors for five minutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_(fuel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_(fuel)
From that article: "Opal is a variety of low-aromatic 91 RON petrol developed in 2005 by BP Australia to combat the rising use of petrol as an inhalant in remote Indigenous Australian communities. ... Typical unleaded petrol contains 25% aromatics, such as toluene, ortho-xylene and para-xylene. In contrast, Opal contains only 5% aromatics, which means that it has less of the toluene and other solvents which produce the intoxication (or "high") that inhalant users are seeking."
- grecy 3y agoI'm not comparing it to standing at a gas pump. I'm talking about this statement on the CDC site you linked: "There is not enough information available to determine if gasoline causes birth defects or affects reproduction" Borderline criminal.
- logifail 3y agoRead an MSDS for unleaded petrol and it's clear one should not mess about with it. https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/country-sites/en_au/australia/home/products-services/data-sheets/regular-unleaded-petrol.pdf https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/country-sites/en_au/austra... Since we're talking about EVs, note that if "electricity" had an MSDS, it would also be full of lawyer-speak warning about risks :)