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Cellular Phones - Do They Cause Gas Pump Fires?
There's nothing humorous about gasoline fires in and of themselves, but some people scale the heights of lunacy when it comes to what they'll do with their fuel. Take one Daytona Beach, Fla., man who rigged up a plastic gas can to be his car's fuel tank – all he did was set up the gas can under the hood, right next to the hot engine. Only the truth could possibly be so bizarre. There is a similar sentiment when it comes to the hokey old story that mobile phones cause fuel pump fires. Do gas stations have good reason to post warning signs on the pump, or is the static electricity danger cell phones allegedly pose to refueling motorists merely an urban legend.
Cell phones and gas pumps – blazing inaccuracy
Snopes.com has a great deal to say about cell phones and fuel pump fires, within the interests of cutting through the misinformation. While your cell phone instruction manual may have something in there about electromagnetic pulses, the hard truth according to Snopes.com is that science and media reports do not back up the explosive cell phone-gas pump notion. Sure, it may sound feasible – electromagnetic waves producing a static charge that ignites the gasoline vapor – but you will find simply no cases to back it up. While there may be some validity to not using cell phones around hospital or airliner equipment, there is no smoke and hence no fire when it comes to the cellular phone fuel pump fire scenario. Media instances of such occurrences in China and Indonesia, according to Snopes.com's research, actually sprung from widely circulated Internet rumors dating back to 1999. Numerous years later, "Mythbusters" made those spook tales of gas pump horror give up the ghost on their program.
Shell Oil made it seem official
In June 2002, a warning was issued via the Internet by what was supposedly the Shell Oil Company. Three cases of cell phones causing gas pump fires were accounted in some detail. The erroneous claim made in the e-mail message is that all a cellular phone has to do is ring to emit an EM pulse powerful enough to ignite gasoline fumes in the air (such as those produced at the gas pump). When cell and vehicle batteries both have the conserve voltage rating, car batteries provide considerably more current. A scary story about cell phones generating "more than 100 volts" in brief spurts, which would be potentially dangerous, was a falsehood likely planted by the phone corporations when cellular technology was new.
Shell Oil later denied ever having issued such a warning message.
The fear is unfounded
Even if a gas station tank does go up – it has happened – mobile phones can't be connected. Talk away, but be sure to get the gas in the tank, rather than on your shoes; distraction could be a bad thing.
Find more information on this subject
Daytona Beach News-Journal
news-journalonline.com/breakingnews/2010/08/manu-using-gas-can-as-fuel-tank-suffers-burns.html
Snopes
snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp
Christians, do you still hate me because I am an African American?
Don't you know that God thinks Black is Beautiful? Because he gave Black People hair like wool, just like his. Read Daniel 7:9:
“As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire".
Fireball stop lying!
White Christians in this section do hate you, even though they lie and say that they don't. They hate you because you are African American.
Yeshua the Christ was Black, just like his ancestor Solomon. His hair is described as being like wool, just like the Ancient of Days.
Men Save Driver After Car Burst Into Flames (Thebostonchannel)
Three neighbors and a police officer helped save the life of a man from fiery
crash in Easton Wednesday night when his car ran off the road, struck a tree
and burst into flames, according to the Enterprise.
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