Posted on 08/05/2023 5:40:51 PM PDT by Libloather
Motorists in Oregon are expressing excitement and confusion after a 72-year ban on self-serve gasoline pumps was lifted on Friday.
Across the Beaver State, drivers took to social media to boast of pumping their own gas, while local new outlets published step-by-step instructions to help bewildered first-timers.
The change came after Governor Tina Kotek signed a bill allowing people across the state to choose between having an attendant pump gas or doing it themselves. The law took immediate effect.
That leaves New Jersey as the only US state that prohibits motorists from pumping their own gas. A few countries also ban it, including South Africa, where attendants offer to check fluid levels and clean the windshield, and expect to be tipped.
'Today was day one where we were allowed to pump our own gas, I was super excited to go and do this myself,' said TikTok user @pnw.bethany in a video on Friday.
However, she was disappointed to discover that she had accidentally pulled into a 'full service' lane at the gas station, where attendants still do the pumping, and vowed to return to the 'self-service' lane for the next fill-up.
Oregon residents were divided on the change, with some expressing support, and others skepticism.
'It's about time. It's long overdue,' said Karen Cooper, who lives in Salem, said shortly before the bill was signed.
'I've spent a lot of time in California,' Cooper said. 'I know how to pump my own. Everybody should know how to pump their own gas.'
Kacy Willson, 32, who has lived in Oregon her whole life, said she doesn't have much interest in pumping her own gas. She's only tried it a few times in her life.
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The chicoms will invade there first.
ROFL. They'll offer FULL service, alright.
Twenty or so years ago while in Oregon and not knowing the law, I got out of the car to pump gas and yelled at the gas station worker that was running to the pump.
We went there about six years ago. I was quite confused.
Like watching the guy do it like a thousand times wasn’t a sufficient tutorial?? Maybe OR was onto something after all.
Its iffy. There’s a lot of evidence as to why its necessary for NJ people not to pump their own gas. At the same time NJ is also a totalitarian liberal state, so...
Hard to decide.
Weren't we talking about this recently?
Well, hello Karen.
There went the good old days for Oregonians. I remember in California when the attendant would pump your gas, check your oil, and not expect a tip. But I am showing my age.
They’ve allowed people to pump their own gas in low-population areas of the state for a number of years now.
“That leaves New Jersey as the only US state that prohibits motorists from pumping their own gas. “
Holy Scripture in the Garden State includes this mysterious passage: Jersey girls don’t pump gas.
So there’s that.
Resembling that remark!
Yep. In 2007, by sheer habit, I got out of the car to pump gas off of I-5 south of Portland, and the attendant was trying to do it for me. Then I realized that the nanny state was present.
When will the Fascist State of New Jersey follow suit. Not having self-service gas pumps is like not having self-service urinals in the restrooms or self-service telephones. At some point in time, people need to learn some self-reliance.
Many are bewildered by freedom.
I might choose full service from time to time, if it were offered here. It’s not against the law. I can only assume that there are so few takers, there just isn’t a market.
ROFL!!
I have to admit it was fun going to Oregon for lunch and just sitting in the car, like old times.
But it was like that everywhere for years when some of us were young.
Believe me, I remember it as a kid in the 1970s. Then some time in the 70s, they started introducing self-serve, although they usually had full-serve lanes in the stations. Then the full-serve just disappeared.
Well then, I ask not being from “nu joisey”:
Are the average NJ people too dumb to trust pumping their own gas, or in this case its overreaching nanny state govt?
I mean if “Jersey Shore” is even a partial measure of normalcy there...
I’m here in the pit of enemy territory.
Self-serve is as weird to me as the converse described by others. I don’t mind it, but I certainly don’t care for it being forced upon me.
Regardless, consider this in the face of all the controversy, including the ‘make work’ argument in favor of self-serve by our friendly, Conservative regional radio hosts:
We have among the highest prices for fuel in the nation and this change won’t affect the prices at all. Across the river, in WA that jackass Inslee added a full ONE DOLLAR to each gallon of fuel for his carbon scheme; I predict OR will have that by the end of the year.
So, despite all the mocking & critique, now I’ve got to get out of my car to fuel my vehicle with NO BENEFIT WHATSOEVER, and neither an available option for full service (which I’d likely opt for just to avoid the busy, cut-rate stations).
Thanks for nothing, Kotex and Salem Circus.
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