Posted on 03/02/2022 7:55:34 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
The old debate about whether drivers in New Jersey should be able to pump their own gas has returned.
On Monday, a group of bipartisan legislators introduced a new bill that would allow drivers in the state to have the option for self-service stations.
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Its such an anachronism. I drove through NJ a couple years ago, and got berated by some guy when I unwittingly tried to pump my own gas.
Was it once a mafia racket that NJ politicians were trying to protect? If it was, it must have been a long time ago.
I am not sure how many other states have this program but I saw it in Oregon a few years ago.
...it must have been back in the 1970s, during the so-called fuel crisis, when we had to travel to New Joisey to visit relatives...stopped at a gas station and started to pump my own gas...we thought the attendant was either going to have a coronary or call the cops..... are the people of NJ too stoooopid to pump their own gas into their vehicles...?? amazing....
Is any other state as backwards as NJ?
If this “bipartisan” bill passes, folks in NJ should see a drop in gas prices. Stations will no longer have to pay gas jockeys.
There is an urban legend that a political focus group once reported such a strong bias against self-service in NJ that no politician dared tackle the issue.
I’ve been pumping my own for years...and years...and years....here in Upstate New York.
I was last in Oregon 10 years ago, not allowed to pump your own gas there either.
If this passes it will propel New Jersey right into the twentieth century!
In Jersey?
It could end the world
When I had a shiny new motorcycle and I pulled into a gas station in Jersey once to fill up the guy started to say something till I gave him ‘The Look’
I pumped my own.
It’s a tankless job, but someone has to do it.
Oregon has it but it was invented to give out of work lumber industry employees something to do.
Believe it or not self-service gasoline is a bad idea. The cost of universal service is negligible (maybe 1 cent per gallon?), and provides employment to people who can’t otherwise get any.
The Indian Mafia gonna be really pissed about that...
It’s a law from 1941 (I believe) and was passed because the State felt gasoline was too dangerous of a substance for the public to handle.
It has survived all these years just like other BS laws.
I can’t imagine having a new Lamborghini and letting some clod pump my gas
I haven’t been to a self serve gas station since 1979.
Had the same problems over the years when I was there. It’s nothing but graft and greed designed to drive up prices to give some foreign putz a job...
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