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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Oregon's Senate has repealed a 72-year prohibition against self-service gas, with new legislation requiring gas stations to staff half the available pumps, while allowing the rest to be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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[–] abhibeckert 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... you stick it in your car, pull the lever, and wait for it to stop on it's own ... hardly needs learning.

[–] battleoften 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was doing it before I was 12 because my mother was disabled. If you can’t figure it out, you might be an idiot.

[–] averyminya 4 points 1 year ago

Gas is literally just sex for your car. You stick the rod in the hole and jiggle it til your $20 deposit is up.

[–] TehPers 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly these days it's trivial to look up how to do something. I get that not everyone is technically inclined, but it's just as easy to look the next car over and watch what they are doing.

I have more trouble figuring out why the pump won't read my card than putting the gas in my car.

[–] averyminya 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget to pull the terminal before.you insert your card, card skimmers are huge issues at gas stations

[–] TehPers 2 points 1 year ago

I generally tap where possible, but yeah skimmers are an issue both inside the stores and at the pumps themselves.