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I know you are joking but I can’t sleep so I will share.

I have seen two huge gasoline explosions and the aftermath of a gas pump explosion.

One was from a cigarette. I didn’t actually see that, but I was sitting in social studies class when the shockwave hit us. It felt like the ceiling pressed down on us. It blew out all the pane glass windows in downtown. This was in the early’80s. Someone who was cleaning a gasoline barge lit a cigarette out of habit. It was like a fuel air bomb going off.

I was a little kid in the early ‘70s when a gasoline truck driver accidentally set his truck on fire by the static from his nylon jacket. It was at night and the explosion woke me up. You could see the fire from everywhere in town.

In the late ‘70s these three dumbasses were stealing gasoline from the filling station where they worked. They were filling 55 gallon drums in a van. It was dark so one of these genuses lit his lighter.

The burned out van was still there in the middle town in the morning. Everyone in the small town drove by to look.

Every annoying safety rule has multiple stories like this behind them.

The now-predictive documentary "Robocop" would suggest otherwise

The static electricity thing checks out: https://youtu.be/T6VKxmUPb3g

A cigarette does not cause any fire, or only in very rare circumstances. The open flame of the lighter or matches is the big issue: https://youtu.be/t9CC-dGwku8