Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years
Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years
Oregon will prohibit gas stations from charging more for full-service fuel.
Oregon's Senate has repealed a 72-year prohibition against self-service gas, with new legislation requiring gas stations to staff half the available pumps, while allowing the rest to be self-service. The bill, responding to industry staffing shortages, also prohibits charging more for full-service than self-service, likely leading to the phasing out of full-service pumps.
Smell that? That's the smell of FREEDOM.
And the smell of gas because I've never learned how to pump and it's all over the ground please send help.
Meanwhile, I live in a country where probably over half the gas stations have no personnel at all.
I remember one service station testing the concept of having staff help with gas, and it felt really awkward.
I live in Washington. I remember one time crossing the border from Portland, Oregon to Vancouver, Washington. What's funny is that Portland has two rivers. The Willamette to the South and the Columbia to the North. The Columbia is the border with Washington. During that trip I stopped for gas, and figured that since I just crossed a river I must be in Vancouver. I got out and started pumping gas only for a guy in an orange vest to come screaming at me to stop like I was about to blow the place up, which is weird because as many of you know it's not that hard to pump gas? Turns out I was in the strip of land in Portland that's between the Willamette and the Columbia, and so I was still in Oregon.
Just a little funny anecdote about this whole situation.
So... are we celebrating a bunch of people losing their jobs?
Its a dumb job
Celebrating the removal of an asinine law that forbid people from doing a common task themselves.
Pointless jobs, yes
If you have not experienced the lines for gas at an Oregon Costco, you've really missed out. End of an era.
People in Oregon really don't believe me when I say I never waited in line for gas when I lived in other states.