Idk if this is the right instance for this, but how fucking tired of these forced ads at gas pumps is everyone else?
I’m paying 4 bucks a gallon to have you shove advertising down my throat like an erect cock?
What the actual fuck
Anyone have any good ad blocking practices for this?
I’ve seen duct or painters tape covering the speakers…
You can press a button next to the screen to mute it, but this doesn’t work at all gas stations. (Usually its the 2nd from the top on the right side)
I guess its just time to gettoblast music every time I pump gas like back when I was 19…
There was a whole Mythbusters episode where they tried TONS of stuff to get a gas station to go up in flames (they couldn’t, not even smoking a cigarette – under near ideal conditions for an ignition of nearby vapors – per my recollection).
So yeah, I’m sitting in my car (especially if it’s cold outside).
“Static electricity” isn’t somehow more of a concern sitting in your car than standing outside one in a fuzzy jacket.
Cool, here’s a video of a known static electricity ignition.
Hey look… a fuzzy sweater.
I’m still getting in and out of my car. I get in, shut the door, get back out, and close the door. Plenty of metal touched. Sometimes gloves.
Here’s another one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JMfxPooeybg
Probably 1 in 10 million (and 2/2 videos where they didn’t shut the car door)… I’ll take that chance.
Edit: also think about it, if this was a real problem with a high enough frequency they’d engineer the fuel handles to prevent it. Heck, maybe they already did (accidentally or intentionally) plenty of them increasingly have a ton of plastic.
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They do engineer the pumps to ground the static charge. That’s what can cause the arc.
You discharge yourself the first time you touch the pump before you fill up.
Getting back into the car defeats the purpose by then grounding you in the presence of fuel vapors, rather than before.
The concern (especially when it’s cold since that usually implies dry air) is that a buildup of static energy occurs when your body rubs up against your cars interior.
This concern is usually a bit bigger for younger folks because they tend to not touch any metal parts of their car when getting up, which would discharge the energy while still a decent distance from the nozzle that’s leaking gas vapors.
