Even Buncefield didn't really do that much damage, except to the immediate locality, certainly not "city flattening", maybe a small village, if it was really really close by, and that was a couple or three orders of magnitude more fuel than a tanker.
If you want to look at proper dangerous stuff thats tankered around the UK, some of the catalysts they deliver to chemical plants all over the UK will actually flatten large chunks of a city. They burn really fast. Really, Really fast. The term "blast radius" is an understatement.
The drivers used to get paid the same rate as normal lorry drivers, give or take a bit.
And BTW, some markets/manufacturers use dye tags in the fuel system, so if you use red, or whatever colour it is where you live, the stain will stay there until the car is scrapped. The same tags (along with some extra clues) can also be used to let us know if you've been using biofuels........ or cooking oil.
FWIW most markets are selling ordinary EN590 with between 5 and 10% bio content now. (Think 8% is the "stock" blend in most of northern europe.)
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