What are the effects of pumping gas with your car on and why are we told not to do it?

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I have a cousin that is part of law enforcement (he’s sort of like boarder patrol) and he said that while shadowing a superior that he learned that, because of his job, he should pump gas with his car on and it had just become a habit for him. I thought that was a big no no for fire hazard reasons. What else is bad with that?

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Think of it like eating while taking a sh!t. Kind of counter productive; the car is using fuel to run and you are trying to fill it up. Some think that turning the car off and on again uses more fuel than just leaving car on while fueling. This might be true for deisel vehicles, but it is not true for gas vehicles.

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