I don't think the scare of using cell phones while pumping gas ever
> got too far. It'd be a very easy thing to check -- what were the
> causes of gas station fires and technically could a cell phone cause
> that? As an all-electronic device, cell phones normally don't
> generate sparks.
There is certainly no evidence that cellphones can start gas station fires (and a lot of evidence against it from MythBusters episodes to research by the peteroleum safety institute), nevertheless every gas station I go to has an official looking sign near the pumps telling you not to use cellphones :-).
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