Do Not Use Cell Phones At The Gas Pump
<div class="IPBDescription">*IMPORTANT!*</div> The Shell Oil Company recently issued a warning after three incidents
in which mobile phones (cell phones) ignited fumes during fueling
operations.
In the first case, the phone was placed on the car's trunk lid during
fueling; it rang and the ensuing fire destroyed the car and the gasoline
pump.
In the second, an individual suffered severe burns to their face when
fumes ignited as they answered a call while refueling their car.
And in the third, an individual suffered burns to the thigh and groin
as fumes ignited when the phone, which was in their pocket, rang while
they were fueling their car.
You should know that:
Mobile Phones can ignite fuel or fumes
Mobile phones that light up when switched on or when they ring release
enough energy to provide a spark for ignition
Mobile phones should not be used in filling stations, or when fueling
lawn mowers, boat! , Etc.
Mobile phones should not be used, or should be turned off, around other
materials that generate flammable or explosive fumes or dust, (i.e.
solvents, chemicals, gases, grain dust, etc.)
To sum it up, here are the: Four Rules for Safe Refueling
1) Turn off engine
2) Don't smoke
3) Don't use your cell phone - leave it inside the vehicle or turn it
off
4) Don't re-enter your vehicle during fueling
Bob Renkes of Petroleum Equipment Institute is working on a campaign to
try and make people aware of fires as a result of"static electricity"
at gas pumps. His company has researched 150 cases of these fires.
His results were very surprising:
1) Out of 150 cases, almost all of them were women.
2) Almost all cases involved the person getting back in their vehicle
while the nozzle was still pumping gas.
When finished, they went back to pull the nozzle out and the fire
started, as a result of static.
3) Most had on rubber-soled shoes.
4) Most men never get back in their vehicle until completely finished.
This is why they are seldom involved in these types of fires.
5) Don't ever use cell phones when pumping gas
6) It is the vapors that come out of the gas that cause the fire, when
connected with static charges.
7) There were 29 fires where the vehicle was re-entered and the nozzle
was touched during refueling from a variety of makes and models. Some
resulted in extensive damage to the vehicle, to the station, and to the
customer.
8) Seventeen fires occurred before, during or immediately after the gas
cap was removed and before fueling began.
Mr. Renkes stresses to NEVER get back into your vehicle while filling
it with gas.
If you absolutely HAVE to get in your vehicle while the gas is pumping,
make sure you get out, close the door TOUCHING THE METAL, before you
ever pull the nozzle out. This way the static from your body will be
discharged before you ever remove the nozzle.
in which mobile phones (cell phones) ignited fumes during fueling
operations.
In the first case, the phone was placed on the car's trunk lid during
fueling; it rang and the ensuing fire destroyed the car and the gasoline
pump.
In the second, an individual suffered severe burns to their face when
fumes ignited as they answered a call while refueling their car.
And in the third, an individual suffered burns to the thigh and groin
as fumes ignited when the phone, which was in their pocket, rang while
they were fueling their car.
You should know that:
Mobile Phones can ignite fuel or fumes
Mobile phones that light up when switched on or when they ring release
enough energy to provide a spark for ignition
Mobile phones should not be used in filling stations, or when fueling
lawn mowers, boat! , Etc.
Mobile phones should not be used, or should be turned off, around other
materials that generate flammable or explosive fumes or dust, (i.e.
solvents, chemicals, gases, grain dust, etc.)
To sum it up, here are the: Four Rules for Safe Refueling
1) Turn off engine
2) Don't smoke
3) Don't use your cell phone - leave it inside the vehicle or turn it
off
4) Don't re-enter your vehicle during fueling
Bob Renkes of Petroleum Equipment Institute is working on a campaign to
try and make people aware of fires as a result of"static electricity"
at gas pumps. His company has researched 150 cases of these fires.
His results were very surprising:
1) Out of 150 cases, almost all of them were women.
2) Almost all cases involved the person getting back in their vehicle
while the nozzle was still pumping gas.
When finished, they went back to pull the nozzle out and the fire
started, as a result of static.
3) Most had on rubber-soled shoes.
4) Most men never get back in their vehicle until completely finished.
This is why they are seldom involved in these types of fires.
5) Don't ever use cell phones when pumping gas
6) It is the vapors that come out of the gas that cause the fire, when
connected with static charges.
7) There were 29 fires where the vehicle was re-entered and the nozzle
was touched during refueling from a variety of makes and models. Some
resulted in extensive damage to the vehicle, to the station, and to the
customer.
8) Seventeen fires occurred before, during or immediately after the gas
cap was removed and before fueling began.
Mr. Renkes stresses to NEVER get back into your vehicle while filling
it with gas.
If you absolutely HAVE to get in your vehicle while the gas is pumping,
make sure you get out, close the door TOUCHING THE METAL, before you
ever pull the nozzle out. This way the static from your body will be
discharged before you ever remove the nozzle.
Comments
They got the local fire dept to help out.
They replicated a gas station and to make sure to increase the "danger" they filled this enclosed area with crap loads of gas fumes and stuff, way more than would be in the open air gas station area.
Then they tested 2 things.
Static electrity and cell phones.
They made huge static charges go off inside and nothing.
They also remote called a cell phone that was placed inside. Still nothing.
They pumped in more vaporised gas fumes.
Still no affect. So this question of cell phones usage in gas stations was ruled false.
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and yea esuna we have those signs in the US too <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
All of them in the US do too.
AND ALSO REMEMBER TO DISCHARGE YOUR STATIC ELECTRICITY. SERIOUSLY.
Seriously though, discharge static and you're fine. Otherwise you're buying into hysteria and contributing to the downfall of civilization as we know it.
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The resemblance is eerie...
Mythbusters is an awesome show, everyone can learn from it.
One time at a local gas station here, about 2 years ago, me and my REALLY idiotic friend were , *gasp* pumping some gas, and he was screwing around with matches at the pump lol. I told him not to so he started to wave a lit one infront of my gas tank opening while the pump was going and wound up catching the pump and my car on fire. I grabbed the pump and took it off that auto fuel and snuffed out the flames quickly and then I couldnt decide to either run from the car or try to put it out lol. I made a stupid choice, what can I say, I was stilll in highschool. =P I decided to go into firefight mode, took a rag and snuffed out the flames just in time and really, literally decided and did, to beat the living sh** out of my friend. Not for endangering my life or his own, but for almost blowing up my car. *growls* no one touches my baby! lol
Yea they have those here to. But some MORONS like to ignore the sign and use their cellphones anyways. I remember a few months back my mom saw a korean taxi driver using his cellphone at the gas station, wow did she get ****. Well, lets just say she gave him a piece of her mind and left him gaping like he just won a ton of kimchi and yakimandu.
LOL i guess thats too complex for some?
They got the local fire dept to help out.
They replicated a gas station and to make sure to increase the "danger" they filled this enclosed area with crap loads of gas fumes and stuff, way more than would be in the open air gas station area.
Then they tested 2 things.
Static electrity and cell phones.
They made huge static charges go off inside and nothing.
They also remote called a cell phone that was placed inside. Still nothing.
They pumped in more vaporised gas fumes.
Still no affect. So this question of cell phones usage in gas stations was ruled false.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->Mythbusters messed up. They reduced the concentration of oxygen to below the minimum for explosion, rendering the test useless.
Therefore they failed to prove anything execept that sufficintly high concentrations of fuel will smother fires.
They got the local fire dept to help out.
They replicated a gas station and to make sure to increase the "danger" they filled this enclosed area with crap loads of gas fumes and stuff, way more than would be in the open air gas station area.
Then they tested 2 things.
Static electrity and cell phones.
They made huge static charges go off inside and nothing.
They also remote called a cell phone that was placed inside. Still nothing.
They pumped in more vaporised gas fumes.
Still no affect. So this question of cell phones usage in gas stations was ruled false.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->Mythbusters messed up. They reduced the concentration of oxygen to below the minimum for explosion, rendering the test useless.
Therefore they failed to prove anything execept that sufficintly high concentrations of fuel will smother fires. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Half true. They reduced the gas concentrations on the second try (after burning off somebody's eyebrows back in the lab) and got the static discharge to detonate the gas. I'm not sure whether or not they tried the cell again, but I don't think so.
A cell phone is no more dangerous than anything else that contains batteries (a source of electricity, and potentially a short/spart), including people's key fobs, or in the case of the Myth Busters episode some underwear rubbing on a car seat. EM radiation will not start a fire by itself.
Yea they have those here to. But some MORONS like to ignore the sign and use their cellphones anyways. I remember a few months back my mom saw a korean taxi driver using his cellphone at the gas station, wow did she get ****. Well, lets just say she gave him a piece of her mind and left him gaping like he just won a ton of kimchi and yakimandu. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
They're not morons, they're smarter than everyone else.
You wouldn't get a dime, because there is a warning sign on the pump. That's the only reason the warning is there: So you can't sue if you hurt yourself.
My dad still smokes while the engine is running in the vehicle he's pumping gas too, so he's too busy to answer his cell phone... :/
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'nuff said.
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ONLY TOASTERS!!
This concludes the public service announcment.
*sings* the moooorree yooouuu knnnnoooowwwww.....
Better safe than sorry.
You wouldn't get a dime, because there is a warning sign on the pump. That's the only reason the warning is there: So you can't sue if you hurt yourself.
My dad still smokes while the engine is running in the vehicle he's pumping gas too, so he's too busy to answer his cell phone... :/ <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes and we all know scalding hot coffee will burn you if you spill it yet she won the case against McDonalds.
Verizion issues no such warnings with their phones, no such warnings in the instructions, and no such warnings anywhere in their tech support papers. So if this was true you could sue them even before anything happened for emotional trauma after finding out it was true because you had used your cell phone at a gas pump with no forward knowledge that it was dangerous.
In case you can't tell I'm studying civil torts in school : P