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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
He said pure methanol is highly toxic, so it required the gas station attendants to wear an "astronaut suit" to ensure methanol vapors wouldn't penetrate thru their skin, but in Brazilian gas stations some reckless attendants thought they were safe just with a surgical mask.
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Wikipedia's page on Methanol Toxicity paints the fuel as having good points and bad, but as generally being no worse than petrol.
And states the "maximum allowed exposure in air is 1260 mg/m³ for methanol, 1900 mg/m³ for ethanol and
900 mg/m³ for gasoline. [Plus] methanol is much less volatile than gasoline".
Also, I don't know about what it's like these days thoughout the Americas but barely any stations pump their own gas here.