Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!

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Petrol on a hot bike wont light. (30 yrs London fire brigade ) you need a spark. you could throw a bucket of petrol on a hot exhaust and it wont light

Mobile phones also don't cause petrol fumes to ignite. I watched a lengthy Mythbusters episode where they had a sealed Perspex case (about 2 metre square) that was FULL of nasty petrol fumes (much greater level than any open air environment of a petrol station forecourt). They tried LOADS of different brand mobile phones inside, switched on, ringing, etc. Nothing will ignite, zero spark! It's all public scaremongery.
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I also watched that episode, if I remeber right they showed it's more likely to start a fire from static build up and wearing one of them old fashioned shell suits the chavs like was the most likely way to ignite petrol while your filling up.

But Im pretty sure they also said that technically there is something like a 0.000001 odd chance that it can happen therefore the rule is more of a better safe than sorry kind of thing. The same reason your not allowed to use your mobile phone on a plane.