Subject: FW: Shell Oil Co. - DO NOT DELETE.. IMPORTANT INFORMATION!
FOR ALL WHO HAVE A CAR...
Please
send this information to ALL your family & friends, especially those
who have kids in the car with them while pumping gas.
If this
were to happen, they may not be able to get the children out in time.
Shell Oil
Comments - A MUST READ...
Safety
Alert
Here are
some reasons why we don't allow cell phones in operating areas, propylene oxide
handling and storage area, propane, gas and diesel refueling areas..
The Shell Oil Company recently issued a warning after three incidents in which
mobile phones (cell phones) ignited fumes during fueling operations.
In the first case, the phone was placed on the car's trunk lid
during fueling; it rang and the ensuing fire destroyed the car and the gasoline
pump.
In the second, an individual suffered severe burns to their face
when fumes ignited as they answered a call while refueling their car!
And in the third, an individual suffered burns to the thigh and
groin as fumes ignited when the phone, which was in their pocket, rang while
they were fueling their car.
You
should know that Mobile Phones can ignite fuel or fumes. Mobile phones
that light up when switched on or when they ring release enough energy to
provide a spark for ignition.
Mobile
phones should not be used in filling stations, or when fueling lawn mowers,
boat, etc.
Mobile phones should not be used, or should be turned off, around
other materials that generate flammable or explosive fumes or dust, (i.e.,
solvents, chemicals, gases, grain dust, etc.)
To sum it
up, here are the Four Rules for Safe Refueling:
1) Turn
off engine
2) Don't smoke
3) Don't use your cell phone - leave it inside the vehicle or
turn it off
4) Don't re-enter your vehicle during fueling
Bob Renkes of Petroleum Equipment Institute is working on a campaign to try and
make people aware of fires as a result of static electricity at gas pumps. His
company has researched 150 cases of these fires.
His
results were very surprising:
1) Out of 150 cases, almost all of them were women.
2) Almost all cases involved the person getting back into their
vehicle while the nozzle was still pumping gas. When finished, they went back
to pull the nozzle out and the fire started, as a result of a static spark from
their bodies from sliding out of the vehicle .
3) Most
had on rubber-soled shoes.
4) Most
men never get back in their vehicle until completely finished. This is why they
are seldom involved in these types of fires.
5) Don't ever
use cell phones when pumping gas
6) It is
the vapors that come out of the gas that cause the fire, when connected with
static charges.
7) There were 29 fires where the vehicle was re-entered and the nozzle was
touched during refueling from a variety of makes and models. Some resulted in
extensive damage to the vehicle, to the station, and to the customer .
8) Seventeen fires occurred before, during or immediately after the gas cap was
removed and before fueling began.
Mr..
Renkes stresses you should NEVER get back into your vehicle while filling it
with gas. If you absolutely HAVE to get into your vehicle while the gas is
pumping, make sure you get out, close the door TOUCHING THE METAL, before you
ever pull the nozzle out.
This way
the static from your body will be discharged before you ever remove the nozzle.
As I mentioned earlier, companies now are really trying to make the public
aware of this danger.
I ask you
to please send this information to ALL your family and friends, especially
those who have kids in the car with them while pumping gas. If this were to
happen to them, they may not be able to get the children out in time.
Thanks
for passing this
along.
"Treasure today—Tomorrow
might be too late"
Newt Gingrich: President Trump's UN address reasserts patriotism and sovereignty
In one of the most important speeches of his presidency, President Donald Trump has outlined a new standard for American leadership on the world stage. This speech explains the strategy of a sovereignty based nationalism as a clear alternative to the globalist desire to submerge nations in international agreements and institutions.
In his first address to the United Nations on Tuesday, President Trump called for “a great reawakening of nations, for the revival of their spirits, their pride, their people, and their patriotism.” It was a strong, clear, decisive call for national identity as the first step to healthy and sustainable international cooperation, at a time that is critical to determining the future prosperity and safety of our world.
Now, more than ever, it is too dangerous for the United Nations to remain ineffective at keeping peace.
Similar to his major foreign policy speeches in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia last spring and Warsaw, Poland this past summer, Tuesday’s speech was both historic and potentially game-changing.
The president placed intellectual clarity and emphasis on his principle that the world will be made safer when America and its allies in the United Nations work together as sovereign nations to achieve peace and security in the world – a notion which echoes the founding doctrine in the Charter of the United Nations.
This is a significant step toward breaking the United Nations out of the inefficient, bureaucratic, global government model, which has rendered the body incapable of stopping rogue nations, terrorism, and other human rights abuses for decades.
During his remarks, President Trump asked member nations, “Are we still patriots? Do we love our nations enough to protect their sovereignty and to take ownership of their futures? Do we revere them enough to defend their interests, preserve their cultures, and ensure a peaceful world for their citizens?”
This question was an intellectual call to arms. The United Nations’ sovereign members need to think critically about whether it is in the best interest of their citizens to allow terrorism and unstable rogue regimes, such as North Korea, Iran, and Syria to provoke chaos and death across the world.
If United Nations member states allow the likes of Kim Jong Un, Hassan Rouhani, and Bashar al-Assad to continue to possess and develop weapons of mass destruction, torment their own people, and disregard international laws, major war will become unavoidable.
In many ways, the president’s appeal was reminiscent of Winston Churchill’s warnings against European appeasement of Hitler in the years leading up to World War II.
No doubt, those on the left will condemn this speech, saying that the president’s policy of putting the interests of America and Americans before those of other nations is divergent, isolationist, and dangerous.
However, this view ignores history. Since its founding, every member of the United Nations has been expected to put the interests of its own citizens first.
When the United Nations was established in 1945 to replace the League of Nations, which had proved too ineffective to maintain peace and security in the years following World War I, there was no expectation that Great Britain would hold its own people second to the citizens of France. The leaders of China would not have been expected to put the interests of the Dutch before their own people. And Joseph Stalin knew that President Harry Truman would put America before the USSR. Any other notion would have been utterly preposterous.
My hope is that the member nations heed the president’s call, reawaken their sense of national sovereignty, and realize how critically important it is to defend their nations against a range of foreign dangers.
As President Trump said on Tuesday, “If the righteous many do not confront the wicked few, then evil will triumph. When decent people and nations become bystanders to history, the forces of destruction only gather power and strength.”
