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Gasoline is explosive. Do not poor it on a fire. If for some reason, you decide that a fire needs gasoline (first, rethink what brought you to this point) poor it on the unlit material and then walk about 20 meters away making a small trail of gasoline away from the material to be lit. Liquid gasoline is not explosive. The vapor that comes off of liquid gasoline is what is explosive. When you go to light you trail of gasoline, stand away from it toss your match or whatever at the trail. The vapor will ignite before the flame hits the ground and then race to whatever you poored the gasoline on. It will then explode and shake the ground under your feet because you thought "if a little is good, more is better." Better yet, just get some actual lighter fluid that was designed for what you're doing and not for propelling a ton of steel down the highway.
Oh, that's one I forgot to write. Empty gas cans are more dangerous that full ones because of room to form vapors. Any source of fire or spark can easily light the fumes enter the container and shoot a jet of flame or even worse explode. I have a relative whose whole front of the body had to be transplanted skin due to him poring gas on a BBQ.