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The cellphone-blows-up-gas-station story is an urban legend, but the dangers of refueling are real, if remote. The Petroleum Institute's page on static electricity risk has some advice: don't get in your car while the tank is filling up.

There's also some fine security camera video of a very lucky person barely escaping incineration in a static-caused fire.
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