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I don't think what car he was driving was a factor.  We have a 4x4  and I can honestly say we would have offered to help, given the same circumstances you describe.   Some people are just plain rude and have no patience.  You get them on campsites as in every other walk of life.

As for the fire, it does seem a bit odd using petrol but perhaps the wood in question was quite wet and left him with little option?  Was the smoke blowing in the direction of the campers?

a) Done it myself...nearly blew myself up and then filled the sky with black acrid smoke...one only usually does it once!

b) Done this too...and I drive a Micra

a. Our council takes recycling seriously - the plastic trays would go into the blue bin (lifted every fortnight) and the organic waste is put into the brown bins together with the bags of food waste, or tied up in bundles at the verge. Weekly uplift for that bin, even through the winter. We shred a lot too. The only thing we put into the black bin is dog and cat waste, everything else is recycled. If the guy needed to add fuel, the wood was too wet. I was at a site at Aviemore, and people were putting their plastic bottles into their chiminea. They got the warmth as it melted, we got the stench of the burning plastic and had to go inside to escape it.

I visited the isle of Rum once, a while back, and dealing with the rubbish there is a problem - they incinerate a lot of it, but have to run away once the fire's started, as the aerosols go off with a very big bang.