Oregon: Pump Your Own Gas Crisis

[clubgop]

Has to be trolling.

This dude is your savior you should know.

[clubgop]

Wait! Is this Dan Carlin trolling his own spinoff site?

It all makes sense now.

[Smitty-48]

The truth about the gas pumping law, surprise, surprise, government corruption, scamming the consumer;

"It was Irving Reingold who created the crisis that led to the law banning self-serve gasoline. Reingold, a workaholic who took time out only to fly his collection of World War II fighter planes, started the crisis by doing something gas station owners hated: He lowered prices. Fifty-one years ago, gas was selling at 21.9 cents a gallon. The price was rigged by a gentlemen's agreement among gas station owners.

"Reingold decided to offer the consumer a choice by opening up a 24-pump gas station on Route 17 in Hackensack. He offered gas at 18.9 cents a gallon. The only requirement was that drivers pump it themselves. They didn't mind. They lined up for blocks.

"The other gas station operators didn't like the competition. Someone tried shooting up Reingold's station. But he installed bulletproof glass, so the retailers looked for a softer target - the Statehouse. The Gasoline Retailers Association prevailed upon its pals in the Legislature to push through a bill banning self-serve gas. The pretext was safety, but the Hackensack fire chief had already told all who would listen that Rein- gold's operation was perfectly safe."

"The bill sailed through in record time, despite the objections of everyone who cared about the public interest. Journalists howled. "Chalk up another victory for the organized pressure groups," said WOR radio commentator Lyle Van."

http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/201 ... afety.html

This is the sort of shit you get from the Bernie Bros, who knew? It's a mob scam, but see how quick that commie scumbag JohnDonne ran out to defend it? Subhuman cockraches, just sayun'.

[Okeefenokee]

We need a wall around Oregon.

Meanwhile, established businesses are more than happy to fuel and exploit public panic for their own gain. For instance, New Jersey’s ban on self-service was heavily backed by the Gasoline Retailers Association, which faced greater competition from rival gas stations that allowed their customers to pump their own gas.

Since those newer stations had no need for attendants, they cut costs, and passed on the savings to consumers in the form of cheaper gas. That threatened the bottom line for incumbent gas station owners, who lobbied the state legislature to ban self-service in 1949. (Oregon’s ban arrived two years later.) As Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine recounted, any feigned concerns for public safety were merely a “cover story” for something “a lot more devious and corrupt.”

A combination of fear-mongering and rent-seeking is one reason why many regulations that seem so obviously silly or pointless persist. A new book by the Institute for Justice details how “bottleneckers” thrive on regulatory bottlenecks, particularly in the field of occupational licensing.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/institutef ... 9d3b5600eb

[JohnDonne]

In case anyone is swayed by the fallacious howling of our resident paranoid right wing communist alarmists, ask yourself a simple question: If a law is passed in part because of pressure groups, does that make the law bad? If pressure groups pressured for murder to be outlawed, does that mean outlawing murder is communist?

[Smitty-48]

This is how the lefties are with everything, they make up a two part sob story, part one is always "public safety", part two is always "for the workers", but the reality, it's just propping up a scam, usually a unionized front, but sometimes it's just a mob.

They're gonna come cryin', them Bernie Bros, watch for that sob story, that's all Sanders is, the guy trying to be the biggest panhandler scammer of them all, and if it ain't him, it will be his cohort, Commahontas.

[JohnDonne]

If we need advice on how to create an actual nanny state you Canafags are the first we'll turn to. Don't hold your breath, chappy. Anyhow, I must reassert that jealousy and envy are the cause of the cartoonishly silly arguments that have been presented here.

[Smitty-48]

In case anyone is swayed by the fallacious howling of our resident paranoid right wing communist alarmists, ask a yourself a simple question: If a law is passed in part because of pressure groups, does that make the law bad? If pressure groups pressured for murder to be outlawed, does that mean outlawing murder is communist?

So, this is the Bernie Bro here, advocating for trusts? Noted.

[JohnDonne]

I don't defend the method by which the law is passed, merely the law itself as it stands. You're like one of those SJWs who tears down confederate monuments because it was created in "oppression." Only you use the catch all "Communist!!!" as your cudgel, but you are quite similar to them.

[Smitty-48]

If we need advice on how to create an actual nanny state you Canafags are the first we'll turn to. Don't hold your breath, chappy. Anyhow, I must reassert that jealousy and envy are the cause of the cartoonishly silly arguments that have been presented here.

These cartoonish arguments don't work in Canada, but they work great in America, very high percentage chance that these cartoonish arguments will get you busted on a ginned up federal felony drug charge and then killed in a private prison while the corporate guards look the other way.

"Mission accomplished" ~ George Walker Bush.