Oh the IRONY: TOO HOT to pump GASOLINE

[FourScore]

Thu Jan 10, 2013 at 08:30 AM PST
In one Australian town, it's too hot even to pump gasoline
by beach babe in fl

We've been reading about how Australia is suffering under some of the highest temperatures in it's history. It's so damn hot that heat maps had to add a new color to describe the phenomenon. The temperature increase is causing severe drought and wildfires.

http://www.news.com.au/national/too-hot-to-refuel-as-town-bakes/story-fncynjr2-1226549873359

IT was so hot in the South Australian outback town of Oodnadatta yesterday that the local servo stopped selling petrol.

The Outback town has been sweltering through one of its great heatwaves with the temperature soaring above 40 degrees every day this year, reaching a peak of 48.2 degrees yesterday.

"The ground, the building, everything is so hot, you walk outside and you feel it's going to burn you," Pink Roadhouse owner Lynnie Plate said.

Mrs Plate said the Roadhouse couldn't serve unleaded fuel after midday because it was vapourising and wouldn't pump in the extreme heat.

48.2 degrees Celsius is about 119 degrees F. According to Apple, that's too hot to use your iphone.

Unable to pump gasoline due to extreme high heat attributed to climate change? Irony run amuck.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/10/1177822/-In-one-Australian-town-it-s-too-hot-even-to-pump-gasoline

[progressoid]

1. Rec.

[LongTomH]

2. Did you see the pics of the humongous dust storm in Australia?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022167976#top

Will people start paying attention to global warming when we get temperatures like this and huge dust storms in the southwest U.S.?

[leftyohiolib]

3. According to Apple, that's too hot to use your iphone. maybe NOW something will be done about

climate chng

[RobertEarl]

4. Nah

They'll just redesign it... call it apple sun version 1... then 2, then 3, etc.

The real problem with all this down south? The Antarctic ice. Can it take the heat and stay together? How much will the southern ocean warm?

We live in interesting times, I am afraid. And becoming more afraid.

[Roland99]

5. Do they stop pumping gas in Vegas or Phoenix all summer?

[pediatricmedic]

6. No, they don't

[LongTomH]

7. We have had temperatures nearly this hot in the U.S.

I missed this yesterday; but, temperatures in Norton Dam, KS reached 118 in June, 2012.