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...... Gas Station Strict Liability:
Another example of a strict-liability commercial activity would be a gasoline station. A typical gas station facility must store thousands of gallons of highly inflammable liquid gasoline and diesel fuel oil in underground tanks. As in the case of explosive manufacturing and housing wild animals, running a commercial gas station is a commercial activity that is inherently dangerous no matter what precautions the operator takes to prevent accidents that could cause harm to others
Running a gas station is an ultra-hazardous activity whose dangers can be mitigated as much as possible, but the very nature of the activity is impossible to make completely safe. Therefore, unlike the situation in the supermarket, any injuries suffered by victims of a fire or an explosion caused by the gas stations stored hazardous liquids would not require any showing of negligence on the part of the gas station owners or operators. (Of course, if the plaintiff was injured in a slip and fall in the cashier area and not because of the inherently dangerous aspect of gasoline storage, the same requirement would apply with respect to establishing a negligent breach of duty would apply even at the gas station.)

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