Funny story. Link here:

http://wgntv.com/2018/01/03/in...as-law-takes-effect/

And we have great gun laws too.........

I highly doubt gas prices are going to go down significantly, if at all here....more likely, the legislature will raise the gas tax...maybe that was the plan all along. The Chevron I usually get gas at was $2.65/reg last night and looking at my records from last year, this Chevron was $2.19/reg

I can pump my gas. But I don't really want to. Luckily I live in a more populated area. Lots of Ducks here. And beavers to the north. I am thinking to move to Oregon City or thereabouts. Then the beavers would be down south

They vote Democrat?
They like high taxes and crappy roads?

Every time NJ attempted to allow self service, the residents themselves reacted negatively. This first started back in the 70's. the group that shut it down was the Assoc of Gas Station Owners.

As almost every station has been upgraded with self service pumps, if they decided to change it could happen overnight. They still need a clerk on duty to accept cash payments and if they wanted, permit full service.

I just drove to Boston and back from NC a week ago. I always make sure I have enough fuel to make it through NJ (and NY). I'm not handing some jack wad my CC to fill my tank and the last time I handed them cash they looked at me like I was stupid. On the way up I fuel in MD and on the way down I fuel in Conn. Once I cross the Wilson Bridge I always breathe a sigh of relief as I am back in "FA" (Free America, as I tell my relatives behind the lines).

For as long as I owned a motorcycle, I always pumped my own gasoline. Even in Oregon during the BMW motorcycle rally several years ago.

I don't want some idiot scratching the gas tank or dripping gas on the bike.

Are you serious?

I'm frankly befuddled as to why neither of these states has joined the rest of the damn planet.

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Originally posted by lkdr1989:
I highly doubt gas prices are going to go down significantly, if at all here....more likely, the legislature will raise the gas tax...maybe that was the plan all along. The Chevron I usually get gas at was $2.65/reg last night and looking at my records from last year, this Chevron was $2.19/reg

The state gas tax went up $.04 per gallon as of Jan 1. It's scheduled to go up another $.02/gal in 2020, 2022, and 2024.

As far as the freakout about pumping your own gas goes (the OP's link), I just laugh. I grew up pumping my own gas in Montana and Idaho and wish to hell I could do it here, but the "rural" counties where they're allowing it now do not include mine. There's been a loophole in the no-self-service law that allows people to pump their own diesel because it's not "gasoline", I've been doing that for 20 years now, up until I switched from my old diesel pickup to a new car last summer. Now I'm stuck with having to let someone else do it for me. But the comments in that video do pretty much reflect the "nanny-state is good" mentality that so many of the western-Oregon residents seem to have.

Also, the change in the law allows people in those rural counties to pump their own gas, it doesn't require them to. Whether those gas stations will fire their pump attendants, effectively requiring people to pump their own, remains to be seen.

The last time someone p7mped gas for me was about three years ago in Oregon.

He spilled gas on the side if my car!

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Originally posted by Vanwall:
The last time someone p7mped gas for me was about three years ago in Oregon.

He spilled gas on the side if my car!

Happened to me this past September in Oregon. Don't recall any spillage, though.

flashguy

One of the dumbest excuses I heard from a friend in Jersey was the health impacts of people pumping their own gasoline. As if 5 minutes of gasoline fume exposure every one or two weeks is worse than an attendant inhaling it 30ish (assuming part time) hours a week?

These people should be eaten first.

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Originally posted by Vanwall:
The last time someone p7mped gas for me was about three years ago in Oregon.

He spilled gas on the side if my car!

Service stations don't put the sharpest tool on the gas pump island.

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Originally posted by GWbiker:

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Originally posted by Vanwall:
The last time someone p7mped gas for me was about three years ago in Oregon.

He spilled gas on the side if my car!

Service stations don't put the sharpest tool on the gas pump island.

I lived in NJ when I was a kid. I can recall dozens of us from my HS class ALL working for gas stations, pumping gas for some running around money.

So watch it with that "sharpest tool" stuff.

It is what it is....and it provides work for a lot of people.

I discussed this issue with a toxicologist some years ago. We agreed that it would be better from a health standpoint to spread the benzene exposure around rather than to concentrate it in the gas pumpers. We doubted the cancer rate would be linearly related to exposure.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
I discussed this issue with a toxicologist some years ago. We agreed that it would be better from a health standpoint to spread the benzene exposure around rather than to concentrate it in the gas pumpers. We doubted the cancer rate would be linearly related to exposure.

Benzene? Gasoline is mostly Heptane with some Octane. Not particularly healthy to breathe, but not as bad as Benzene. When pump gas had tetraethyl lead in it, it was a great deal more dangerous to one's health. (Made the exhaust smell good, though....)

flashguy

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Originally posted by parabellum:
These people should be eaten first.

"Donner... Party of 50!"