On Monday, 26 September 2016 12:55:20 UTC+1, dennis@home wrote:
On 26/09/2016 10:35, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 15:02:11 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article m,
dennis@home wrote:
Shell scrapped their pay at the pump as they make more money selling
Costas at £3 a cup, Volvic at £1.50 a litre and a sandwich at £3 than
selling fuel.


You can buy fuel in Shell garages using your phone instead of pay at
pump.

Whatever happened to the 'do not use your mobile phone in a filling
station', then? Do you drive off and pay later? ;-)

I know Mythbusters busted it a while back ... total bollox nowadays (may
have been true in the past).


Mythbusters didn't test for the real reason mobiles are banned.

I suspect the biggest danger if from dropping your phone and the battery
subsequently blowing up and taking the fuel with it.
Some phones don't even need dropping!

I heard the real reason was because of the way the pumps calculated how much petrol was pumped in that case the amount owing could be altered by the older type mobile phones that had a higher signal output rather than explosions.
They have/had simialar concerns wuth aircraft although that was apparently more to do with the wiring picking up extransious mobile signals which agian just wouldn;t happen with phones from this milenium.