Oregon: Pump Your Own Gas Crisis

[Fife]

It’s stuff like this that makes you start to think the Lochner Era was a good thing.

Have you seen David Bernstein's Lochner book? https://www.amazon.com/dp/022600404X/

[de officiis]

It’s stuff like this that makes you start to think the Lochner Era was a good thing.

Have you seen David Bernstein's Lochner book? https://www.amazon.com/dp/022600404X/

No I haven’t, but thank you for bringing it to my attention.

[Fife]

It’s stuff like this that makes you start to think the Lochner Era was a good thing.

Have you seen David Bernstein's Lochner book? https://www.amazon.com/dp/022600404X/

No I haven’t, but thank you for bringing it to my attention.

It's a job well done, check it out.

[The Conservative]

I'd love not to have to pump my own gas... but that's me... especially for the cost of gas... pfft.

[DBTrek]

I’m all for people choosing to make fake jobs for gas pumpers if that’s what they want. Freedumb.

What I oppose is the helpless, dependent, oxygen thieves it creates as collateral within a single generation. People who will fight tooth and nail to never have to pump their own gas because it’s “too dangerous”, or ageist, or dangerous to children, or whatever bullshit scare/victim fantasy they peddle to derail the conversation. We can I’ll afford to become that useless in today’s world.

We owe it to ourselves to do better.

[brewster]

I've been a Jersey resident for 20 years now, and as I've heard it the negotiation to repeal this stupidity here gets stalled when AAA insists that as part of the repeal gas stations reduce their prices (duh) but the gas co's refuse to agree.

It used to be fine as long as we had a super low gas tax, but Christie and every previous gov have made hash of our state finances, and raided the highway fund for other uses, so now to fill the fund they've raised the gas tax close to our neighboring states. Presumably some of the dozens of gas stations by the Holland Tunnel that serve people getting cheap gas as they head in will bite the dust.

[Fife]

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Muh Roads Doe

[Ph64]

I’m all for people choosing to make fake jobs for gas pumpers if that’s what they want. Freedumb.

What I oppose is the helpless, dependent, oxygen thieves it creates as collateral within a single generation. People who will fight tooth and nail to never have to pump their own gas because it’s “too dangerous”, or ageist, or dangerous to children, or whatever bullshit scare/victim fantasy they peddle to derail the conversation. We can I’ll afford to become that useless in today’s world.

We owe it to ourselves to do better.

Well, I do have to be honest an say there's a lot of morons out there.

In the past say 10 years or so I've twice been inside the gas station when the guy at the register starts cursing, then looked to notice someone drove away from the pump... with the gas spigot in their car, ripping the hose off at the release joint (now I know why its there), one lady (of course) even drove away down the street with the hose hanging from her car, totally oblivious. (The attendant commented the cameras will have her licence plate). And I've showed up at stations several times where pumps were out of service because the hose was missing... I'm sure the same thing.

So yes, pumping your own gas can be dangerous... if you're an incompetent distracted moron. Unfortunately we seem to be producing a lot of those in recent years...

[Speaker to Animals]

That's just women, though. They've always been like that. I know a woman who has done that several times. Shed tell you flat out it's just a chick thing.

[The Conservative]

That's just women, though. They've always been like that. I know a woman who has done that several times. Shed tell you flat out it's just a chick thing.

Pfft, it's not. Go to a college and look around, distracted idiots abound. We call them walking hood ornaments for a reason.