Cell Phones Blow Up Gas Stations?
Many believe that using a cell phone while pumping gasoline can cause explosions, due to static electricity emitted by the phone. This started around 1999 when a man from Indonesia had been badly burnt and his car damaged to an explosion like this. The man was talking on his phone while the attendant was filling his car with petrol. The man leaned in close to the tank to see if it was full, which may have caused the vapor to explode. This is a controversial myth until you get right down to the science of it. There are two main views on this subject, the cell phone did it, and the cell phone didn’t do it
There is nobody here that has ever really proven this fact to be true. Discovery’s Mythbusters has proven this theory wrong. There is no known scientific facts or evidence that this myth could be true. The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association said, “There is no evidence whatsoever that a wireless phone has ever caused ignition or explosion at a station anywhere in the world. Wireless phones don’t cause gas stations to blow up. Warnings being posted in petrol stations simply perpetuate the myth.” The same idea was confirmed by the American Petroleum Institute, “We can find no evidence of someone using a cell phone causing any kind of accident, no matter how small at a gas station anywhere in the world.”
Due to these facts I am going to bust the myth. There has been no experimentation that this myth is true and the quotes from the C.T.I.A and the American Petroleum Institute have proven the myth to be wrong. Snopes.com has an interesting page with a few examples and articles of the controversy over the subject. The television show, Mythbusters on discovery has done experimentation on the subject in 2003 and proved it to be false. There are no scientific connections to cellular devices causing explosions.
Sources
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.switched.com/media/2008/03/firegas.jpg
http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp
http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2004/05/14/image617543l.jpg
