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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WitchingHour, post: 4039376, member: 63241&quot;]If you get a substantial enough hit for that to happen, you&#039;re creating a lot of friction... friction creates heat, and flammable materials will catch fire if enough heat is applied to them. Brake shoes, air lines, polymers and plastics... all of those can be burned. </p><p>As for bursting into flames the way you describe, I&#039;ve seen it before, but we were talking about KBR or Horizon fuel trucks which had taken RPG or IED hits directly. Even then, for them to just instantaneously explode wasn&#039;t the norm. I&#039;ve never the sort of spontaneous combustion you&#039;re talking about from a collision.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>First, diesel fuel has a HIGHER BTU rating than unleaded gasoline. </p><p>During the Russo-Finnish war, the &quot;Molotov ####tail&quot; came to be a thing. The Soviets didn&#039;t coin the term - the Finns did, as the Soviets claimed to the rest of their world that their firebombs were actually food drops. The Finns took a bit of grim humor to this, and named their improvised incendiary device the &quot;Molotov ####tail&quot; so that they could have &quot;a drink to go with the food&quot;. The Molotov ####tail was a mixture of gasoline and diesel, rather than straight gasoline - the gasoline, for its flammability so they could ignite it, and the diesel fuel, because it burns hotter, once you can get it lit.</p><p>Second, have YOU tried it? If not, I&#039;ll make a bet with you... you stand in a puddle of unleaded gasoline, and I&#039;ll stand in a puddle of #2 ULSD. On the count of three, we both drop a match. We&#039;ll work out the details on what the survivor wins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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