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Dear Q & A: I have a question that’s not really driving/car related, but here it is: I’ve heard it’s dangerous to use a cell phone at a gas station. Something about static electricity. However, I see people on their phones all the time, and I have yet to see any signs posted at the pumps. Is it true?— LisaDear Lisa: This seems to consist largely of urban legend, the kind that warns that there are alligators infesting your town’s sewer system. It may have all started in 1999, when in quick succession there were reports from Bangkok (by some accounts, Indonesia) that a cell phone “caused” an explosion at a filling station there; that in Adelaide, Australia, a man using a cell phone near petrol pumps caused an explosion and fire; and in Trail, British Columbia, a man talking on a cell while pumping gas caused another fire. Investigations of all these incidents failed to prove any causal connection between the telephones and the fires. Fire...
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