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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Oregon's Senate has repealed a 72-year prohibition against self-service gas, with new legislation requiring gas stations to staff half the available pumps, while allowing the rest to be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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[–] GiantBasil 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's interesting, I live in a country where the compete opposite happens, you don't touch the pump at all, a lot of people don't even leave the car usually. The gas station staff does it, never heard of one here where you could do it yourself.

Might sound fancy, but it's just mistrust.

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