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.

This is the ONLY true item in your posting. Static electricity has been
implicated in almost every vapor related fire (tho lighting cigs are also
ignition sources).




There was a story done on this very same topic last week or so on the
evening news.... One of those which follows your local news at 6. They said
that many tests indicated that it was NOT the cell phones, but rather the
Static - as others have indicated.




What is new about this?

50 years ago when I was in the Air Force there were restrictions on
wearing static producing clothing on the flight line due to the danger
of igniting fuel fumes.

Dave