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Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years (www.thedrive.com)

submitted 2 years ago by RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja to c/news

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Oregon's Senate has repealed a 72-year prohibition against self-service gas, with new legislation requiring gas stations to staff half the available pumps, while allowing the rest to be self-service. The bill, responding to industry staffing shortages, also prohibits charging more for full-service than self-service, likely leading to the phasing out of full-service pumps.

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Now we can only make fun of New Jerseyans for being too stupid to be trusted around a gas pump.

[–] goolie 13 points 2 years ago

Hey leave us alone. We’ll figure it out in another 72.

[–] CCatMan@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago

Omg, tell me about it. Moved to NJ and everyone is clueless when they leave the state and have to pump... Ok not everyone, but the number is above zero. 👍

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

I grew up in farm country NJ. One day I drove to Pennsylvania with these two girls(I think I was high school senior at the time) because it was the closest 24hr Walmart. On the way back I needed to get gas and wanted to get a pack of smokes cause it was cheaper there. I gave one of girls my debit card, told her to put 20 in the tank and went into the store. I took a piss a bathroom, got out went to the counter and the guy was laughing. He said "these girls must be from NJ"... "why do you say that?"... "they have been trying to pump gas and can't get it started"

We watched them for 20 minutes before I felt bad and went out and pumped the gas. They were not the smartest girls but wow...