Oregon Gas laws (- Yet another attack on freedom)

CAPITALISTCHICKS.COM ^ | FR Post 12-1-2002 | Debbie Brannigan

[ASOC]

$1.59 to 1.79 here in Anchorage
More in Fairbanks
Full of Ethonol to boot

[error99]

regarding your link at post # 30...
I LOVE IT !
(I buy gas in Norcross, Georgia - and I pump it myself)

[gcruse]

And if the feds tried to force Oregon have self-serve gas;
And if Oregon resisted the new federal law;
Then historians would call it a rebellion over
the "cause" of self-service gasoline...
(if you catch my drft)

My brain has seen better days.  But, if I had to guess,
most historians writing today would say the rebellion was
radicals resisting the federal government's need to
maintain individual competence in pumping gas rather than
risk having terrorists infiltrate the ranks of fuel dispensers
and stop the critical flow of gasoline at the pump rather
than at the oilfields where they have been stymied by
our efforts in the war on terror.

[Paleo Conservative]

Shirley, you jest...

I'm serious, and don't call me Shirley.

[error99]

If you are really being vey series about this.
Just what the heck do you think such a law would accomplish?

If you are you going to say "lower prices";
then I am going to say "no it won't".

Then you are going to say "it will too";
and I am going to say "it won't done it".

Then you will say "will";
and I will say "won't".

Before you know it,
one of will call the other one a "poopy head",
and get banned.

[Paleo Conservative]

If you are really being vey series about this.

Read post #69.

[RWG]

This is really no big deal. As far as I can remember, gas prices in Western Oregon are competitive with other Northwest states' self serve stations. In Washington I have seen differences between self serve and full serve stations of up to 20 cents per gallon for attendants to fill the tank. When the prices are close to equal Oregon benefits the employable but unemployed with little to no cost to the consumer.

[error99]

But you didn't answer the question...
"Just what the heck do you think such a law would accomplish?"

[Orange1998]

Dave, I think you are incorrect "We don't have sales tax either, probably because the legislature can't just enact one, it needs to be approved by the voters.."

Every state I know of charges gasoline sales tax. West Virginia the highest and Georgia the lowest.

[Paleo Conservative]

But you didn't answer the question...

"Just what the heck do you think such a law would accomplish?"

One, it would mean people travelling along highways funded by federal tax money would not have to pay higher prices for gasoline due to idiotic local laws. I also want to annoy leftist wackos who to force their agendas onto the states by incredible contortions of the commerce clause of the constitution. At least the highway system that connects the states can reasonably be construed as affecting interstate commerce. My guess is that within a few years owners of gas stations that are further than the limit will lobby to get this stupid law prohibiting self-service gas sations repealed so they are not at a competitive disadvantage.

[oceanperch]

I enjoy having pump service.

[oceanperch]

It is $1.49 for prem. on the coast

[FreedomCalls]

I enjoy having pump service.

I enjoy having a choice of pump service or self service.

[Vroomfondel]

I just drove through Shoshone, CA this afternoon. $2.29.

[BurbankKarl]

I remember pumping my own gas in the late eighties at three in the morning....the guy started yelling at me and I said it was his fault for sleeping.

[johnboy]

utterly medieval

lol.

[oceanperch]

I love a rainy day living on the bay.
No snakes or bugs that are poisonous.
I love my little town where driving is not to far I Love Oregon where I will be buried six feet deep.

[trussell]

Wonder what Oregonians do when on vacation and all they can find is self-serve stations? Something to think about!!

[Fledermaus]

Yeah, it's a stupid law.

It's supposedly designed to "protect" the environment by letting minimum wage morons pump your gas instead of the driver that is probably 200 times smarter.

Also, it drives the price of gas up. My parents live in Portland and both complain about the high prices! But at the same time they buy into all the enviro-wacko stuff and vote for Democrats!

I find, as with my parents, that the biggest whiners on things like high gas prices or Social Security are Democrats that vote to keep those stupid programs in place.

My mother was agahst when she found out, at age 62, that you actually have to WORK and pay into SS to actually get a check!