[ThinkDifferent]

The law is socialist, stupid, economically ridiculous. It's a great thing! It's great because it is a state law. The people of Oregon have decided to do this to themselves. Would that the Tenth Amendment applied to all other areas of state decision making.

Absolutely right on all counts.

[Paleo Conservative]

The law is socialist, stupid, economically ridiculous. It's a great thing! It's great because it is a state law. The people of Oregon have decided to do this to themselves. Would that the Tenth Amendment applied to all other areas of state decision making.

Absolutely right on all counts.

We also have a system of Interstate and US highways that connect communities to the rest of the United States. These laws interfere with interstate commerce. According to Article I, Section 8, Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce.

Article I Section 8 The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

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To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

I think there should be a buffer zone within a mile of any Interstate or US highway in which the states would be prohibited from prohibiting self-service gasoline stattions.