As a NJ resident driving since the early 1960s, it's all I've ever known. Let people pump their own gas and they'll blow themselves up! (You'll shoot y'r eye out, You'll shoot y'r eye out) Besides that, it would mean the unemployment line for a lot of marginal workers!*
Doesn't that law limiting the size of counties where self-pumping is permitted fall under "equal protection under the law"? Unconstitutional?
*No, I don't consider people who do that kind of work any less than myself, but a lot of others do.
But the funny thing is, gas is usually cheaper in NJ than NY with full serve there, always fill up in Jersey before heading back to the Fiefdom of Prince Andrew of the Hovel of Cuomo...
I guess it takes all kinds