The following message was gleaned from rec.autos.misc
I guess that's why they call it "misc"
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Subject: Re: Cell ph> Just wondering, many cell phones (and pagers) have a "silent ringer"
The only fuel explosion that I know of while using a phone was with a VW bug. Which are reputed to blow up all by themselves anyway. The phone was just a co-incedence.
I think it was more mass media paranoia than anything else. Like cell phones cause brain cancer.