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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
According to the Discovery Channel Mythbusters, talking on a cell phone while pumping gas will not cause a fire at the pump. But, static electricity from your body or something else can cause a fire.
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Yep
FACT CHECK: Cell Phone Use at Gas Pump
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Later investigations, however, have always shown in such cases that the press reports were wrong, that something else (usually a discharge of static electricity)touched off the fires , and the presence of cell phones was coincidental rather than causal.
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More concerning to me than cell phone use (or even smoking 10 feet away), are those people who fill a gas can while it's still in their trunk...or contractors filling them while on a trailer or in the bed of their trucks.
THAT is when the potential for static electricity starting a fire/explosion...is at its greatest.
