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NJ self-service gas: Bipartisan legislators introduce bill to give drivers option to pump their own gas
Fox 29 ^ | 03/02/2022 | Shaynah Ferreira

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: gas; newjersey; selfserve
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To: Vaquero

I can’t imagine having a new Lamborghini and pumping my own gas, unless from my own supply tank, at home.

To be completely honest, I can’t imagine having a new Lamborghini. (Hells bells, I can’t even spell it)


61 posted on 03/02/2022 9:06:22 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: Sacajaweau

Off topic, but, why does only New York use “up state”? Where does that come from and why don’t other states use the term. In California we just say, “I’m from Northern California.”, to show that we’re not liberal douchebags. (But there are loads of pockets of hippie enclaves and weirdos all over the north in California too.) in general, stereotypically, we’re considered good if we live in Placer County and above. At least that’s my impression.


62 posted on 03/02/2022 9:08:21 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: LordOddsocks

See post 57


63 posted on 03/02/2022 9:09:34 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: Gaffer

how to put a card in the Pump…..
NJ law pre-dates card use, 1949, was cash only for a long while


64 posted on 03/02/2022 9:10:27 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

There’s no California, California that’s why.


65 posted on 03/02/2022 9:11:19 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: pepsi_junkie

women do NOT want self-serve gas

That’s why some have husbands 😁


66 posted on 03/02/2022 9:12:03 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: TokarevM57

I lived in NJ for most of the 1990s. I almost always pumped by gas no matter what the attendent did or said.


67 posted on 03/02/2022 9:13:01 AM PST by meatloaf
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To: Kid Shelleen

We’ve been pumping our own gas for thirty or forty years. Many/most gas stations aren’t full-service anymore; if you need work, you take your car to Midas or Bucky’s or some other specialty shop, or do it yourself if that’s your thing.


68 posted on 03/02/2022 9:13:07 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: PGR88
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 heard it was a jobs program for high school drops and third world immigrants.

69 posted on 03/02/2022 9:13:15 AM PST by rllngrk33 (It seems the soap box and ballot box have failed, it might be time for the bullet box.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

It’s just an area in NYS...and excludes NYC. It’s a regional thing.


70 posted on 03/02/2022 9:13:24 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Leaning Right

Ditto.


71 posted on 03/02/2022 9:13:38 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

Minnesota uses ‘outstate’ to refer to outside of metro Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Upstate is used to refer to northern Minnesota, but much less than outstate.


72 posted on 03/02/2022 9:14:38 AM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

Because only New York City is the important part. And anyone living in NYC will tell you that, to your face.


73 posted on 03/02/2022 9:16:11 AM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Yeah many years ago my first gas station trip in Jersey.

Voice over speaker, “Sir get back in your vehicle”, I am looking around, like what’s happening, lol. Yeah, illegal to pump gas . I wonder if they ever leave the gas cap off ?

74 posted on 03/02/2022 9:16:56 AM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Hallelujah!


75 posted on 03/02/2022 9:27:23 AM PST by exinnj
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To: lefty-lie-spy
We label like crazy. I don't know when the Upstate label came about and it's really only been used more recently. The Finger Lakes Region defines a smaller part of Upstate...along with North Country, Western New York etc etc.

I was born and raised in Rochester but live in a suburb now. We always had the confusion in Rochester of Uptown and Downtown which I simply ignored...cuz you might say say you were going Uptown on a bus. I could have been going downtown for all I knew. LOL

76 posted on 03/02/2022 9:28:53 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: drSteve78
That’s why some have husbands 😁

True. My wife went to college in Pennsylvania so she definitely knew how to pump her own gas. She also was a working attorney who competently managed her own technology devices for work and home. Yet I feel like the day we got married within her brain she selected all knowledge associated with technology and pumping gas and hit the delete key. Even basic things like CTL-C to copy, she refuses to retain the info I keep showing her. She's just like "that's your job now, you'll show me again if I need it".

77 posted on 03/02/2022 9:30:49 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: chajin
It’s a tankless job, but someone has to do it.

Just stop. You're only going to pump up the controversy.
78 posted on 03/02/2022 9:43:21 AM PST by rickomatic
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To: TokarevM57

In the early 90s I stopped in to a NJ gas station with my 1981 Celica.

I knew not to DARE get out of my vehicle. Gasoline is too dangerous to be handled by a mere mortal. The highly trained and certified operators of the pumps are much, much smarter than I am.

My Celica had a sticker inside the gas lid. It said “unleaded fuel only”. I’m sure many here remember these stickers. My wife has never heard of one.

To be cute I removed the “un” from the sticker reducing it to “leaded fuel only”.

The pump attendant refused to dispense fuel.


79 posted on 03/02/2022 9:46:50 AM PST by Celerity
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To: wildcard_redneck

I’m not guessing that you are a jerk, I can tell from your post.


80 posted on 03/02/2022 9:58:51 AM PST by devere
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