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A college student was pumping gas into his sports utility vehicle near New Paltz, N.Y., recently when he flipped open his cell phone to answer a call, and suddenly found himself surrounded by flames.

Are the nation's 158 million cell phone users at risk if they don't hang up while they fill up their gas tanks? Although signs at gas stations warn against cell phone use, experts and a Good Morning America experiment cast doubt on the theory that cell phones can cause fires at the gas pump.

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[Vincent Nguyen]

Myth Busters (The Learning Channel) tried to "prove" that using cellphones near a gas pump spark flames from the fume but couldn't get it to work. These folks went as far as wearing women's satin under garment thinking that the static created by the satin material will help. As a result, they failed.