To everyone, no one in particular:
From a fair, balanced source with no form of bias, Dictionary.com:
[h=2]vol·a·tile[/h]adjective 1. evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor: Acetone is a volatile solvent.
2. tending or threatening to
break out into open violence; explosive: a volatile political situation.
3. changeable; mercurial; flighty: a volatile
disposition.
4. (of prices, values, etc.) tending to fluctuate sharply and regularly: volatile market conditions.
5. fleeting; transient: volatile beauty.
In summary, it is true that LNG is much more volatile than diesel due to its low vapor pressure.
I shall let a chemical engineer give you further details, as I am only a mechanical engineer.
As a matter of simple common sense, do you feel any safer knowing that you routinely travel at speeds that God never intended you to, propelled by thousands of explosions every minute, with a tank full of highly flammable fluid sitting only feet behind you, and that any one of the hundreds of other cars you see daily could potentially wreck with you, and permitting that fluid to convert everything in the area into a giant inferno, you included?
Think about what Apollo astronauts had to go through, having their butts strapped to 4.7 million pounds of kerosene on the Saturn 5, which happens to be heavier than gasoline (C12 vs C4-C12), and therefore safer to use and handle.
