Hmmmm.....following the link shown in your post,
http://www.pei.org I found the following link:
http://wgntv.trb.com/news/local/even...,1460530.story
That link takes you to the WGN News in Chicago website, and an exerpt from the story reveals:
Quote:
quote:So where does this bogus info come from? The fake email cites PEI, The Petroleum Equipment Institute as its source. It's a real company, but the information is anything but.
The fake email has linked so many worried people to their website, that they now post a big yellow warning box at the top of the site saying, "The email circulating did not originate from PEI. In fact, PEI has never been able to document a single refueling incident caused by a cell phone."
Four different telecom companies from around the world including Motorola and companies from the UK and Australia all concluded the same thing.
It's all an urban legend and nothing more than an internet hoax.
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As often happens when someone passes along this sort of story it is with nothing but good intentions in mind. Still, I think of the emails going around about the Teddy Bear icon that proves your computer is infected with a virus....we all got this at work one day about a year ago, and before I could tell everyone it was a hoax (the file in question is a legitimate Windows file so of course it's on your computer!) 7 people at work had deleted the file. If someone tells you about a new virus threat, go to
www.sarc.com and do a search for it. That's the Symantec AntiVirus Research Center.....home of Norton AntiVirus. If you suspect something else might not be on the up and up, do a Google search, you'll find it.
Although this cell phone induced explosion story is false, the worst it will do is get people to pay attention while pumping gas, and I just don't see the bad in that!