Posted on 01/03/2018 11:18:01 AM PST by DFG
Of all the new laws going into effect Monday (legal cannabis in California, higher minimum wages in several states, and many more), you may be surprised about which one drew the most backlash online. It appears to be Oregon House Bill 2482, which allows people who live in counties with 40,000 residents or less to pump their own gas.
Oregonians aired their frustrations on Facebook over the new law. And just about everyone else in the country made fun of them.
New California laws going into effect in 2018 New era opens in California with first sales of recreational marijuana "I don't even know HOW to pump gas and I am 62, native Oregonian.....I say NO THANKS!" said Sandy Franklin on Facebook, in response to a post by local news station KTVL that asked for viewers' opinions on the new law.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Many years ago? I can remember gas for 19.9 in Siloam Springs, AR. Probably 1967.
Sounds about right. I saw it for about 19 cents in Oklahoma around 1969.
In the spring of 2009, during the crash, I saw it for $1.24.9 where I was living - that’s the lowest I’ve seen since not long after 9/11 when I filled up my old Jag sedan for about 85 cents a gallon.
The taxes are all in the price given, I have no idea what the taxes are. It used to be cheaper to buy in Washington but I don’t really see the difference anymore.
I remember filling up the tank of my little Honda SS50 motorbike myself when I was 16, so that would have been 1978.
The Roma tomatoes I’m fond of planting are late producers, too-the plants just sit there, tall and covered with blooms for months-then in mid-summer they start setting fruit like some alien vegetation and produce nice tomatoes till the 1st frost comes. Raised beds are popular out here, what with the thin soil and bedrock less than a foot down-we top-mulch the soil in them with hay, shredded tree limbs, leaves etc-works great, especially for asparagus-fortunately, it is cold enough here that asparagus produces really well...
I was camping years ago in a very remote corner of Northern California, the corner nearest Idaho.
Lava Beds National Monument. It was a cool place. Lots of dead cinder cone volcanoes to climb.
Anyway, my date, now my wife, had never been to Oregon, and I needed gas.
So we crossed the border and went back in time. I clearly remember the guy running out and yelling at me to not pump my own gas and thinking that guy must yell at neighbor kids to stay off his GD lawn also.
Anyway, I highly recommend Lava Beds.
Union job creation.
How about a nice set of steak knives from our friends at Shell?
Be nice if you could still FIND a station where they would pump your gas and check your oil.
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