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

submitted 1 year 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Oregon's Senate has repealed a 72-year prohibition against self-service gas, with new legislation requiring gas stations to staff half the available pumps, while allowing the rest to be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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[–] half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The article snippet quoted here literally says this was in response to industry staffing shortages...

[–] argv_minus_one 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no shortage of workers. There is only a shortage of employers willing to pay.

[–] half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but that's entirely beside the point here. Nobody is celebrating people being laid off en masse. The law changed because these jobs were apparently not being occupied to begin with,

[–] argv_minus_one 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then this is a capitulation we shouldn't have made. These companies tried to coerce us into letting them get away with not hiring people, despite us having a law intended to make them hire people, and we have allowed them to get away with it.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Make work" laws are terrible policy.

You're forcing consumers to pay a human who is only there to inconvenience them.

There's a reason we don't have laws protecting buggy-whip makers. People need to find new jobs that provide value to society.

[–] themobyone 1 points 1 year ago

I was a little shocked the first time I heard some states in the USA still have this. In my country attended petrol/diesel pumps is a 40+ years old thing. Probably about time to get rid of it?

It's not good if people are loosing jobs, but the world has been like this for hundreds of years. There's countless of occupations through the ages that are gone now. For better or worse, time moves on relentlessly.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

According to the companies that stand to directly benefit from this new law? I haven't noticed a shortage of workers at any station and I have to fill up every 4 days.