Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Newark ship blaze blamed on Ports America-owned loading vehicle" video.

  1. Vehicles make for impressive fires even without battery or fuel tank! I worked salvage long ago in the cutting torch era in Jersey City and if spatter ignited an interior there was much entertainment, especially if it lit off after the hull was deep in a horizontal stack (think "dominos"). Vehicles are basically built to burn.
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  2.  @durgan5668  The point was to get one over, not drive it. The usual "Lemon Lot" cars swapped between G.I.s for many tours handled most of that. In the 1980s some bases had their own small salvage yards (just a parking area) where G.I.s could harvest parts for free. A nice arrangement all around. Of course German standards are geared to coerce car replacement so a bit of otherwise irrelevant rust served that bureaucratic purpose, and AAFES sold many new rides in Europe or delivered in CONUS.
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  3. ~$400/ton is a bit more than twice #1 scrap steel buy price at scrapyards or "absurdly low".
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