(The Horrors of the new) Oregon Gas laws!

Capitalist Chicks DOT COM ^ | FR Post 9-5-2 | Debbie Brannigan

[cruiserman]

Yup. Just got back home to Idaho after spending Labor Day weekend in the Baker City, OR area. Extremely annoying and frustrating to pay more for gas and have someone else pump it for me. Waited at 3 gas stations before someone came out to pump the gas. Too bad all that nice scenery is wasted in OR.

[shotgun]

No, the law states that they will only pump your gas! It says nothing about the "attendant" washing the windshield, checking the oil, etc. They are usually to busy walking, not running, around to the other cars to fill them up also.

If your in a hurry forget it. I was raised in Washington and was trained earlier on how to pump my own gas. This is nothing but and never has been anything but a JOBS program in the state with the highest unemployment in the US. Unfortunately I had to live in that state from 4/2000 until 6/2002.

Don't forget about the wonderful bottle bill law. You are forced to pay 5 cents deposit on pop and beer. Then the store owner installs return machines. These machines are the "great equalizer" of the masses. They are filthy, sticky, and stink, but ALL must use them to return their empties. It is my opinion that these machines are also rigged to reject a certain number of cans, which enables the store to make a nice extra little profit. The cans must be in pristine condition so the machine can scan the UPC mark, therefore you can't crush them. This then forces a person to dedicate a large portion of their garage to hold the bags of empties before returning them.

And if that is not bad enough, the return machines are programmed to accept all brand name items and only the store brand items. This means that if you buy Safeway brand pop, you can't take it back to Albertsons and vice versa.

I purposely would buy my beverages in Washington and throw them in the trash to the utter horror of my co-workers.

Oregon makes me want to puke!!!

[Looking for Diogenes]

(The Horrors of the new) Oregon Gas laws!

It has not been quite a decade since this law was imposed...

Ten years is new?

[gunshy]

If you are filling your tank up in Yreka you are an idiot. The current price in Yreka is $1.85 per gallon. Thirty miles north in Ashland Oregon, the price is $1.43 per gallon. You obviously have more money than brains. I live in Yreka and I buy my gas in Oregon.

[handk]

Coming soon to Oregon...

"Section 1. An owner, operator or employee of a supermarket, grocery store, convenience store or other dispensary where human food consumeables are dispensed at retail may not permit any person other than the owner, operator or employee to use, manipulate or fill any shopping cart, shopping basket, shopping tote bag or other device designed for containment and/or transportation of said human food consumeables.

Section 2. All persons entering the premises of any supermarket, grocery store, convenience store or other dispensary of retail food consumeables, shall, at all times, be in possession of a pacifer, and said pacifer shall be prominently displayed by placement in the mouth of such person. If any person is not in possession of said pacifer they shall be required to suck their thumb, but only if they first receive a one-day exemption pass from said retail establishment before entering said establishment."

[Eaker]

The gas law helped them stay employed in their own communities.

Comunisim or Socialism??

It IS one or the other.

Stay safe; stay armed.

[norraad]

50 years ago my uncle pumped with a cigi danglin' from his mouth & a loaded double barrel behind the cash register, never had no trouble.

23 cents/gallon.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Do they follow you home and fill your lawn mower for you?

A gasoline powered mower in Oregon? LOL.

[dalereed]

You were paying way too much for your gas.

I was paying 13.9 cents a gallon in Los Angeles 50 years ago.

[Vicki]

Was just down there about a month ago visiting the daughter who attends college there. We pulled up to a gas station and my husband was ready to get out when the daughter shouted "Stop, you are not allowed to pump your own gas."

They are a bunch of nuts in Oregon, but who am I to complain, here in Washington we are not far behind.

[norraad]

Your right, that was a 60's price.

But the gas is cleaner now.

A big up modern refinery puts less in the air than a "modern" trash to fuel plant(thanks wacko greenies, oh, your so smart).

[Phyto Chems]

It has been this way for some years now..... what happens when LIB's (ie: RATS) get a hold of a state.

[Issaquahking]

The lumber industry didn't collapse! It was forced from the region by the green logic. I hope those who don't fight the greens and fight to take America back, never again get a REAL JOB. The lunatic left moving towards socialism/communism needs lots of trained fuel dispenser attendants. I left the region because of the left....and am fighting greens currently, in taking back America for REAL AMERICANS.

Screw Oregon's stupid pump law.

[NW Viking]

I guess diesel is not considered a problem here in Oregon if you pump it yourself, as I do it on a regular basis. I moved here from Californicate in 1976 to get away from the idiots around me, traffic, drugs etc. I realize that Oregon has just a big of problem now as Californicate but for the big part it was the the influx of people from Calif that has caused the problems in Oregon. I seen this happen in a small town over run with retired Calif people saying "that's not the way we did it in Californicate". I was born and raised in Calif and sometimes are appalled at some of the things that are going on down there now. I asked a Oregionian once about this gas pumping thing and he said it was originally brought up to the legislature by "some" people from Californicate. I will stay here and pump my own diesel at $1.32 a gallon thank you. Plus I can fill the tank instead of having some young person pull the nozzel out and still have 2 or 3 gallons to go to fill the tank.

[Drop the Vernacular]

Ummm... You pay less than neighboring states for gas because NJ has a lower gas tax. You would pay even less for your gas if you had the option of self serve.

I have found during my occasional travels through New Jersey that you do not get any additional services such as windshield cleaning or oil check. (Not that that would be a justification for mandatory full serve even if you did get those services.) In fact you sit around waiting for the one or two attendants servicing 10 cars to get to you. If you want to get faster service, then begin to pump the gas yourself (pretending not to know that it is full serve) and watch the attendant come sprinting over to you yelling that you are not allowed to pump.

[norraad]

....& reply with subtle ex'ass'peration when he pulls the nozzle out o'your hand,

"it's a Derby!"

[rudepenguin]

this law was enacted in 1951. I'm trying to find the reasoning behind it. The story is that a careless smoker pumping gas blew up himself & a family in an adjacent car. I lived in the DC metro area for almost 15 years, and was quite adept at pumping my own gas without blowing anything up...