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Originally Posted by tturedraider
It’s just stupid not to turn off the motor. Regardless of the risk of explosion the consequences of it happening are catastrophic.
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Explosion????!!!!
That is only in Hollywood movies, bro. There are no known mechanism for a modern well maintained car to explode due to leaving the engine running while refueling.
If you are incredibly paranoid, you would be grounding your car before refueling, because a static electricity spark is the most likely way to cause an incident while refueling (and that is incredibly unlikely). Not the running engine.
You do realize that a bunch of cars are driving into and out of the gas station while you are refueling right? Do you demand that every car around you must have the engine off until you finish refueling?
The lack of critical thinking in our society is astounding!