No freedom was won, but paying jobs were lost, and a pleasurable convenience will no longer be part of the experiential landscape.

Some people want to be as self sufficient as possible.

For example - I shop almost exclusively at Walmart because I can bag my own groceries.

To those who complain about job loss......why is it that a week doesn't go by I hear a local business owner say he/she can't get the help he/she needs?

Their are a LOT of jobs out there!

At least where I live in Florida, anyway.

Is New Jersey the only place left where you cannot pump yourself?

Yes. Is there anywhere else in the world where this is not allowed?


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Yep. That idiocy is still in play here. Only thing are allowed to pump ourselves is diesel.

What really pisses me off is, 3/4s of the lazy putz's in the state want it to stay that way.
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I bet there will be stations open that let people have an option to do it themselves, or pay a bit more for someone else to do it. But is is stupid to make everyone pay for an employee to that is useless, and not needed. New Jersey will stand alone as likely the only place on the planet where customers HAVE to pay for someone to pump gas. It is like requiring a bag boy to take the groceries to the car and just adding his employment costs to the groceries.

I prefer to save the 10 cents or so per gallon to do it myself. All over town are businesses begging for employees to show up for work every day. Jobs are easy to find.

If your time is valuable to you, you should appreciate the ability to pump your own fuel, vs waiting for an unmotivated pump jockey to finally make his way to your car.

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Stations are required to have an attendant available for those who do not want to pump themselves.
Price must be the same as self serve.

Giving people the option is good.
I'm not worried about jobs lost. There are Help Wanted signs all over town.

They are not making full service illegal, what are you talking about? Freedom to not have some monkey spill fuel on my vehicle's paint or lean up against it while they are standing there doing nothing.

Are the gas stations open 24-7 in Oregon? I honestly don't know and I really don't care.

There is a station near me that is a locally owned chain, the pumps are on and pay at the pump works 24/7 365. Again, I don't really care, as I am almost never up past 11:00 PM. It is nice to know that if an emergency came up, and I needed gas at 3:00 AM, it is available.

For quite a while, the rural counties in eastern Oregon have had 24 hour self-serve.
Just because of this concern- doesn't make sense to pay an attendant to be there at 3am, but somebody may need to fill up.

I occasionally travel through parts of Oregon, and always fill up on the east side to avoid having to wait for somebody else (who may not care if the nozzle dings my paint) fill the car.

So self serve has been legal in rural counties, but not the populous ones. Does that make any sense?
I applaud this (rare) bit of common sense from Oregon.

From what was in local newspaper article, the self service is available, and the attendant service is available, and there is ZERO price difference by LAW. So even though the attendant can just sit there, the self service folks have to pay for him to sit and watch. Yea, that makes sense.

In the real world, when people could save several bucks per tank to pump it themselves, yea, almost everyone went to self service. If there is no price difference, less incentive for the average driver of a beater.

True that but, my local guys don't even try to fill my MC.

I remember way back when I was a kid seeing that some gas stations had mixed lanes. Some lanes (usually closer to the building) were full service, and some were self service. I don't remember the last time that I saw one. I do think that I had a rental car in NJ once that shocked me when I found out I couldn't pump my own gas.

If I was in OR, I'd be pretty happy about this.

There was a small family owned gas station just a couple of blocks from my old place of work. It had just two pumps, and the side closest to the building was full service, the street side was self service. My grandmother drove the extra two miles to have them pump her gas, wash the windshield that was always dusty as she only drove to the grocery store or church, or to get gas. They checked her tire pressure, and she loved the attention. That same place had an oil change bay, so she had her oil changed there every 12 months.

My mom used them as well when she started having mobility issues after her 4th hip replacement.

I'd be happy if the price of gas came down with the new law, but it's not. So I'm not.

#cashgrab. :mad:

I could be mistaken, but my experience in OR was that a motorcycle rider was always permitted to pump his/her own fuel.

I was in Long Island, NY a few years back and stopped for gas. I hooked the hose up and was looking for the card reader when a guy came running out to me and yelling to stop.

Apparently they still have the 'no fueling by customer' law.

I have a strong suspicion that the wonderful Oregon legislature had a hand in the latest sudden price hike...might be wrong tho...did the state gas tax just take a jump?

I don't know what the legislature did or didn't do regarding the price of gas, but I just got back from Boise where gas was under 4 bucks a gallon everywhere I went. The good news is that I got to practice pumping my own and making sure I didn't drive off with the gas cap sitting on the pump.