There are always signs that show the ban of cigarettes, matches and phones at gas stations. I can imagine fire being dangerous around gas, but you can’t possibly blow up a gas station with a mobile phone, can you?
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I mean, the first thing that comes to mind is the Samsung Galaxy Note model that had issues with exploding, so that can definitely blow up a gas station.
But in general, the risk isn’t so much the phone causing an explosion, but the phone causing a distraction which causes a spill of gasoline, which is costly, wasteful, and does increase the likelihood of an explosion if a stray spark finds its way to that general area.
(It’s not widely known just when or why the idea that they could reliably blow up gas stations started or when the signs appeared, but it’s since been thoroughly tested and short of exposing wires to create a spark quite intentionally, nobody has been able to start a gas fire with a cellphone despite many attempts to do so)
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