Re: GEM Fire Burns House of Celebrity

[josh <joshl@myrealbox.com>]

>The real story here is that a "$4000 fire alarm system"
>didn't go off.  If this had been a gasoline car fire,
>the story would've been how tragic it was the dog
>died.  I can't recount how many gas cars I've seen
>burned on the side of the freeway, and quite often
>hear of them during traffic reports on the radio.
>I feel a whole lot safer with 1300lbs of batteries in
>my garage than 20 gallons of gasoline.  
>
>My $.02.
>
>Mark Brueggemann
>Albuquerque, NM
>S-10 EV

It would be interesting to see some statistics on gasoline vehicle fires.  It
would also be interesting to see how that technology has progressed from when it
first started 100 years ago.  I say this because the recent wave of Electric
Vehicle Efforts is really just getting started, comparatively speaking.  If we
learn from EV-related fires at this relatively early stage, I think we could do
a good job of looking into whether those fires are less frequent than
gasoline-vehicle-related fires, or potentially less-so if improved technology
and methods of use are put into place.