[vannrox]

AMAZING!

[Johnny Gage]

Places to visit:
Oregon - Another one off the list.
I bet the gas stations in Vancouver WA will be getting a whole lot more Portland residents buying gas there!

Welcome to the Communist Republic of Oregon!

[Boonie Rat]

Tar and feathers is a viable form of communication.

Boonie Rat

MACV SOCOM, PhuBai/Hue '65-'66

[taxcontrol]

I seem to remember from my improvised munitions class in the Army that a 5lbs bag of ordinary household sugar contains more explosive potiential that 5 gallons of gas. Perhaps the next thing we will see is the grocery clerk being "licensed"?

[Who dat?]

Yes, and it’s been that way for at least 25 years too. I think New Jersey also had a similar law once.

But you can’t fault the legislature for the high fuel taxes. The Oregon voters had their hand in that.

When I lived there 15 years ago, the legislature proposed a $0.05/gal tax to pay for road maintenance. It was to be phased in two cents the first year, two cents the second year, and one cent on the third and final year.

It had to pass by 60% of voters to become law, IIRC. It passed. It turns out that it requires 60% vote to become law, but once it becomes law the legislature can extend it unilaterally. They did. I left years ago but I don’t think they ever reached the third and final year of the gas tax phase-in. They just extended it at two cents the third year, another two cents the fourth year, another two cents the fifth year, etc…

There is no sales tax though – at least when I was there, so she should be grateful.

[r9etb]

You know, there are a lot more important things than this to get worked up about.

It's actually kinda nice to have somebody pump your gas and clean the windshield.

And gas prices in OR aren't appreciably different from those elsewhere.

BTW, Ms. Brannigan is completely incorrect when she says it has not been quite a decade since this law was imposed.... It's been that way for at least 30 years.

Sounds like those capitalist chicks need to go back and find something important to PMS about.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

I hate to tell Ms. Brannigan this but, this Gas Law is not new.
In fact, it is at least 30 years old. And just about every year, some group get a referendum put on the ballots to do away with this stupid law, and every year the voters vote it down. Another reason why I no longer live in Oregon.

[Random Access]

Yea, yea, yea. Politics and all that crap aside, it is nice to have someone pump the gas, clean the windshield, check the oil and tires. It reminds me of the old days when the word "service" in "service station" had meaning.

Last Saturday I cracked up when I saw a bride, in full wedding dress, at a gas station pumping her own gas. Oh, for the good old days, when the winters were milder, summers cooler and everyone I knew, including me, was younger.

[aimhigh]

In Oregon, we don't have to get gasoline on our hands. We don't have to get out of our cars in the rian and snow to go inside and pay the bill. And we don't pay any more for gas than those who do.

[Constitution Day]

I think it's the law in New Jersey, too.

[rwfok]

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

[EricT.]

I have a friend that owns a gas station along I-5. He absolutely hates Oregonians that come in and get mad because he does not run out and fill up for them. They have to be instructed on how these complicated dispensing devices operate.

Does lack of freedom spawn laziness or vice-versa?

[walkingdead]

Of course the real question is how much extra tax is Oregon paying to train "fuel dispensing experts"?

[genefromjersey]

NJ has a similar law : guess what ?

We pay less for gasoline and get something that ( occasionally ) resembles service !

[plain talk]

10a) The significantly higher prices typically charged for full-service fuel dispensing in states where self service is permitted at retail discriminates against customers with lower incomes, who are under greater economic pressure to subject themselves to the inconvenience and hazards of self-service.

This is the one that got me. So everyone pays a premium for Full service which hurts the poor more because they have less money and have no choice. Those people in Oregon who put this in place are complete idiots.

[Tax Government]

Many people in Oregon were put out of work in the 70s when the lumber industry collapsed. The gas law helped them stay employed in their own communities.

[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.

[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?

[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."

[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.

[Phyto Chems]

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