03.22.2008 6:06 am

Truth or fiction

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In Sunday’s Along for the Ride, we told you about an email hoax claiming that cell phones have been linked to fires at service stations. Static electricty has been linked to fires, but not cell phone use. There are dozens of transportation-related rumors flying around the internet. To check them out for yourself, go to the sources cited in the email. Here are several websites that check the claims of these email rumors.

Snopes.com anaylzes warnings sent over email. To read about the cell phone/gas station rumor, click here.

About.com dissects urban myths.

To read what the Petroleum Equipment Institute has to say about static/cell phones/ gasoline fires, click here.