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From the third paragraph; Several city officials said they were told the van contained approximately 1,000 gallons of gasoline, but a spokesman for the Maryland Department of the Environment later said about 80 gallons of diesel fuel was offloaded from the vehicle.
What's a couple orders of magnitude difference...
From the third paragraph; Several city officials said they were told the van contained approximately 1,000 gallons of gasoline, but a spokesman for the Maryland Department of the Environment later said about 80 gallons of diesel fuel was offloaded from the vehicle.
What's a couple orders of magnitude difference...
If you don't store the Juice in the vehicles, how will Papagallo and the rest elude the Humongous and make it out of the Wasteland?
Awesome. Some Baltimore entrepreneur just lost his equipment.
Looks like two IBC totes, total capacity 550 gallons. Probably filling up at the Baltimore City Government motor pool.
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If it was gas, before the explosion, think of the whoosh that would have made.
There has been too much violence. Too much pain. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror.
Only applies to commercial vehicles. Load up your personal vehicle with as much as you want.
80 vs 1000, two extra zeros, two orders of magnitude.One order of magnitude.
I need to build one of these vans for the zombie apocalypse.
80 vs 1000, two extra zeros, two orders of magnitude.
why are they using pounds as a unit of measurement for gasoline? 6000 pounds is going to be about 1000 gallons of gasoline
How do they know the gas is stolen...
I'm willing to bet that the 6,000 lbs/1,000gal has been exaggerated.
However, a spokesman for the Maryland Department of the Environment later said about 80 gallons of diesel fuel was offloaded from the vehicle.
Then when the idiots stealing the gas figured out they had no easy way to sell the gas, they just ditched the whole thing
One order of magnitude.
I need to build one of these vans for the zombie apocalypse.
Hell of a big gas tank. That's 6000 pounds. Is that illegal? Jack.
Only applies to commercial vehicles. Load up your personal vehicle with as much as you want.
It has to do with the GVW rating of the van, is it designed to carry that much weight safely.
Assuming each person is 200 lbs, a fully loaded 15 passenger van is carrying 3000lbs payload, 1000 gallons of gas is double that.
And it looks like they found another suspicious van, this one with 660 gallons of gas:
Baltimore County Crews Find Suspicious Van Carrying 660 Gallons Of Fuel
The van was parked - not moving.Iirc anything over 110 gallons requires cdl and hazmat placarding.
I think they just went with pounds because it was a bigger, more sensational number.
Door to door gas salesmen, duh.