Backward Oregon drivers don't want self-serve gas stations.

[Montrovant]

I did not realize there are states where pumping your own gas is illegal. That's mind-boggling.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I did not realize there are states where pumping your own gas is illegal. That's mind-boggling.

Just two.

 

[BulletProof]

Self-service means no waiting. Modern gas stations allow a dozen, or more, people to fuel up at once. No more waiting for one or two attendants to get to you.

We're seeing the same thing happening at retail stores with self-checkouts. The number of open registers to check out has multiplied, eliminating lines.

Only retarded people complain about self-service.

 

[Two Thumbs]

fyi

It's not 'full service', someone just pumps the gas for you. You are paying for full service, but you are not getting it.

 

[bodecea]

Here in Oregon, this new law only applies to low population areas. Most of the population still can't legally pump it themselves.
Oregon is also afraid of fireworks as well.

Given the cost of the wildfires started with fireworks, damned right we are afraid of them. Should automatically seize all assets, and all future assets of those that start wildfires in that manner.

Sieg Heil!

Texas state motto.

 

[saveliberty]

People Freak Out After Oregon Strikes Law Banning Self-Service Gas Stations

The law, which will take effect Jan. 1, has created a minor firestorm in rural parts of Oregon, where full-service gas stations have been the norm since 1951. A local CBS affiliate in Medford, Ore., asked its viewers on Facebook about the new law – the responses have ranged from anger to confusion.

“I don’t even know HOW to pump gas and I am 62, native Oregonian…..I say NO THANKS! I don’t want to smell like gasoline!” one woman wrote in a comment on a survey the new station posted Dec. 29. The poll elicited more than a thousand responses.


Another shared her opinion, with several commenters suggesting full-service gas stations are safer than those permitting residents to feel the exhilaration of filling their own tanks.

Oregon...a snowflake haven since 1951.

 

[saveliberty]

I love this story. There is no thrill involved in filling your own tank. Good on Oregon I say.

You'd probably prefer a state employee hold your dick while using a public restroom too.

 

[koshergrl]

Here in Oregon, this new law only applies to low population areas. Most of the population still can't legally pump it themselves.
Oregon is also afraid of fireworks as well.

The city dwellers and statists are terrified that they will travel into rural Oregon to experience the culture they've done their best to destroy....and not be able to figure out how to refuel and thus be stuck forever among hostiles who really, truly, wish they would just stay home.

 

[saveliberty]

Chance of dying in gas-pump fire, like one that killed Cumberland County teen, is '2 in 10s of billions'

Renkes said he has studied the issue of fires at gas pumps for 12 years and in that time there have been nearly 200 fires which appear to have been caused by static electricity.

“There are 11 billion fill-ups a year,” he said. “This is the second fatality we know of. That makes the chances of dying this way, what, two in tens of billions,” he said.

Really dangerous huh?

 

[percysunshine]

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If the Oregon gas station attendants were all topless cheerleaders, no one would have passed the law in the first place.

 

[PredFan]

When I first heard this I thought it was a joke. Did they actually have nothing but full service gas stations in Oregon?

 

[saveliberty]

When I first heard this I thought it was a joke. Did they actually have nothing but full service gas stations in Oregon?

Yes, this change only applies to rural areas and it is not mandatory to have self serve even in those places. Wonder how any of them put fuel in their lawn mowers?

 

[PredFan]

When I first heard this I thought it was a joke. Did they actually have nothing but full service gas stations in Oregon?

Yes, this change only applies to rural areas and it is not mandatory to have self serve even in those places. Wonder how any of them put fuel in their lawn mowers?

I didn’t think full service existed anymore.

 

[saveliberty]

When I first heard this I thought it was a joke. Did they actually have nothing but full service gas stations in Oregon?

Yes, this change only applies to rural areas and it is not mandatory to have self serve even in those places. Wonder how any of them put fuel in their lawn mowers?

I didn’t think full service existed anymore.

I guess it all depends on whether you would consider visiting Oregon or New Jersey.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

Ever been to New Jersey? They don't allow self service stations there either. Found that out when I was going to Newport RI and drove through there back in 1993. Stopped for gas, and because most of the stations in FL where I came from were self serve, I stepped out of the car and went for the pump. Some dude ran out of the station and told me that I couldn't pump my own gas, because it was against the state law.

And..................Oregon and New Jersey are the only 2 states left that have such a ban. New Jersey has had their ban in effect since 1949.

Why New Jersey Doesn't Let You Pump Your Own Gas

Lawmakers in New Jersey and Oregon are considering bills that would finally give drivers in those states the option to pump their own gas. But why was that practice banned in the first place?


Let’s start with the case in New Jersey. The Garden State’s ban on self-service gas stations, which are allowed in 48 states, began in 1949 when the New Jersey Legislature passed the Retail Gasoline Dispensing Safety Act. That law, enacted over concerns about the safety of consumers pumping petroleum themselves, was later followed by many other states. However, almost every state has since overturned their self-serve bans.


Some contend the New Jersey law was rooted in corruption, not safety concerns. There are also worries that young, inexperienced drivers run into trouble when visiting neighboring states and forced to pump their own gas for the first time (that was an issue for the author of this story when he drove in Pennsylvania as a teenager).

I use to pump gas in Oregon during the winter months and ran the deli at a local station in Seaside.

Fun times during my pot years...

 

[percysunshine]

When I first heard this I thought it was a joke. Did they actually have nothing but full service gas stations in Oregon?

Yes, this change only applies to rural areas and it is not mandatory to have self serve even in those places. Wonder how any of them put fuel in their lawn mowers?

They hire Californians to do the dirty work.

 

[saveliberty]

It is not to say self serve can't be pussified too. There are little TV programs that run while I pump gas these days. Usually they feature weather, sports or vocabulary words along with an ad.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Oregonians Collapse As Self-Serve Gas Station Law Takes Effect

The backward people of Oregon complain about self-serve gas stations.​

The other day it was -3 in New Hampshire with a 17-mile-an-hour wind on the highway where a busy convenience store is located. I got out of my car and quickly zipped up my jacket while I cursed myself for not wearing gloves. My numb fingers fumbled to get my wallet and choose a credit card. I stood in the biting wind facing a gas pump with a small screen on its face that began barking advertisements for everything from winter gadgets to TV programs. I slid the credit card into a slot and then just as my eyes were starting to freeze shut I had to answer several questions about how I wanted to use the card by operating a touch screen with my now frostbitten fingers.

As my nose started turning blue I had to take an IQ test and remember the pin number that went with card I chose to use. At this point the biological phenomenon of shivering had begun to set in while the miracle of modern technology worked its magic telling me my card was approved. The ordeal was just beginning.

Now I had to choose which grade of fuel I wanted by aiming my blood-drained hand at one of the buttons and watching a light come on. At this worrying moment the pure white digits on the ends of my hands had become sausages and it was a struggle to get the little door open on the side of the car to get to the gas cap. In the extreme chill my wrists had lost the ability to swivel and I had to use two hands to unscrew it.

Now at long last I reached for the gas nozzle and with my last bit of strength, slid it into the car. I fantasized about the olden days while the gas was pumping. As I began to freeze like a statue I thought about the 1950’s in the passenger seat of my dad’s car.

He’d pull into a gas station and an attendant would come right out. The old man never asked for more than three-dollars-worth and the attendant would always ask if he wanted the oil checked. The old man never had to get out of the car to brave the wind.

Those people in Oregon are living in the past.

Idiots!

Oregonian men are sissified Libtards. No wonder they shriek like a girl at the thought of pumping gas like a man.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I love this story. There is no thrill involved in filling your own tank. Good on Oregon I say.

You'd probably prefer a state employee hold your dick while using a public restroom too.

Depends on what she looks like!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

When I first heard this I thought it was a joke. Did they actually have nothing but full service gas stations in Oregon?

Yes, this change only applies to rural areas and it is not mandatory to have self serve even in those places. Wonder how any of them put fuel in their lawn mowers?

I didn’t think full service existed anymore.

I guess it all depends on whether you would consider visiting Oregon or New Jersey.

Most people are smart enough to avoid those places. They are infested with liberals.