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What Jack said!

As for the gasoline, there's a technicality in that answer. Liquid gasoline won't ignite, gasoline VAPORS however will. (the basic rule is only vapors will burn regardless of the fuel) THAT'S why the sign at the stations is there. They aren't worried about a puddle of gasoline, it's the vapors escaping from the fill pipe. With vapor recovery systems in many areas this may be somewhat of a reduced concern, but not enough for me. If anyone has gotten away with an ignition source around gasoline they've been lucky that the air/fuel ratio hasn't been right, or the ignition source hasn't been close enough to the space where the a/f ratio was right.

The Navy "fuel engineer" was a lucky idiot (emphasis on the idiot). Besides, odds are he was an "expert" on heavy fuel oil (far less volatile than gasoline), not gasoline, if he was any kind of "expert" at all.