Gas station explosion – Caused by the cell phone?

An email myth says: using cell phone near gas station can cause accident explosion. A story goes that there is a CEO speeding along on the highway, all the suddenly he finds his car is just about out of gas, so he drives to a gas station, gets out starting fueling, takes out the cell phone and calls the office at which point there is a big fire balls goes to the CEO and the entire gas station explodes. Are the two rumors authentic? They are good stories and good stories are very powerful. People believe it deeply. We can see the signs say please don`t use your cell phone here in the gas station.
There have been more than 150 gas station fires crashed the united states since the early 90th. Could the cell phone be the reason? Well, the science says No! The data shows over 50% the accidents occur during the person go back to his car while his refueling. Ten years the statistic plays women in the most danger. They are largely responsible for the gas station explosions, especially because they get in and out of their cars while fueling up, so they build up static charge on their body. When they touch the gas tank they cause the explosion. With the 152 cases now we`ve conformed, 78% are women, 22% are men.
Now we know the problem comes from getting back into the car while refueling, electricity static charges are generated on the seat and clothing while do the movement, getting out takes the charge with you, so if you first touch is near the open fuel tank the resulting discharge spark could be deadly.
So how to solve this problem? Mostly the young people cause the fire. They just simply jump out of the car, not touching anything while the old people often touch the car window or door when they come out of the car and When they do that they discharge.
when you find that there are sparks while you are refueling, remember no to be over reacted, avoiding to spill out the oil cause they can lead a big fire and that can get on yourself.