Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
I worked in the ground water field for over 20 years, some of that work was cleaning up sites contaminated by gasoline. There are a lot of gasoline additives with chlorine, bromine, etc., that produce things other than carbon dioxide and water vapor when burned.
A car will burn more petrol while your positioning it in the car park than you will to boil water with most stoves.
I agree that it's a dirty method of cooking and there are far better solutions out there, if i was in a spot, my stove burned petrol and that's all i could find, i wouldn't bat an eyelid in using it.