Oregon: Pump Your Own Gas Crisis

[brewster]

Women are all over the place. They try to sell it up as "multitasking", but it's really just driving off with the fuel pump hanging out of her car.

I think I may have just found a sig line.

You guys want to see jobs featherbedding, you should read last weeks Times article about the subway construction. They had 900 workers, a office guy actually did his own job and audited the work force and found 200 didn't even have job descriptions. Poor guys were let go after bleeding the govt for $100/hr for god knows how long. Note, they have job descriptions for watching automated machinery that doesn't need watching, the equivalent of an elevator operator in an automatic elevator who just sits there and watches people press the buttons.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyre ... costs.html

[SuburbanFarmer]

That explains where Apeman went. Probably helping them sue the city.

[de officiis]

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.

I don't have a problem if gas stations want to offer what used to be called full service. I just think it's sorta dumb to mandate it if there is a market for people who want to pump it themselves and pay a little less.

[Ph64]

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

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

I don't have a problem if gas stations want to offer what used to be called full service. I just think it's sorta dumb to mandate it if there is a market for people who want to pump it themselves and pay a little less.

Sadly I know a lot of guys (not just women) who don't even have a clue how to change a tire and put the spare on. I had to help a friend even (I'm 53, he's 58) put his spare on when his tire was flat, "I'm mechanically inept" (also totally unorganized - he helped cut up a huge hickory tree in my yard that came down in Sandy, he has a 36" saw my biggest is 24", I bought him a new chain for his birthday since his was ancient - takes the nuts off and puts them in a pile of leaves and then wonders why he can't find one after when there's a nice flat clean rock 12" away he could have used - I found it for him, but organizational skill are obviously not his forte).

Then there's the woman who had a screw fall out and faceplate fall off an electrical socket in her apartment - scared she'd "electrocuted herself" putting it back on, not that she even had a screwdriver. 30 seconds and a butterknife had it done.

[Penner]

In New Jersey too, no pumping your own gas.

Truly odd to me. I don't think I've ever had a person pump my gas for me and I've been driving since the mid-80's.

I'm loving the freak out, though. Good stuff. I hope this comment is satire, but it's hard to know.

I've lived in this state all my life and I REFUSE to pump my own gas. I had to do it once in California while visiting my brother and almost died doing it. This a service only qualified people should perform. I will literally park at the pump and wait until someone pumps my gas. I can't even

I have heard that in NJ you can't pump your own gas and it's because so you can't just speed off and not pay at the pump. Also I heard that their is one place in NY state that has outlaw the pumping of your own gas.

Oregon regulations say that any counties above 40,000- you can not pump your own gas.

[Okeefenokee]

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

I don't have a problem if gas stations want to offer what used to be called full service. I just think it's sorta dumb to mandate it if there is a market for people who want to pump it themselves and pay a little less.

Sadly I know a lot of guys (not just women) who don't even have a clue how to change a tire and put the spare on. I had to help a friend even (I'm 53, he's 58) put his spare on when his tire was flat, "I'm mechanically inept" (also totally unorganized - he helped cut up a huge hickory tree in my yard that came down in Sandy, he has a 36" saw my biggest is 24", I bought him a new chain for his birthday since his was ancient - takes the nuts off and puts them in a pile of leaves and then wonders why he can't find one after when there's a nice flat clean rock 12" away he could have used - I found it for him, but organizational skill are obviously not his forte).

Then there's the woman who had a screw fall out and faceplate fall off an electrical socket in her apartment - scared she'd "electrocuted herself" putting it back on, not that she even had a screwdriver. 30 seconds and a butterknife had it done.

Speaking of jobs, there are classes to teach people these things their parents failed to teach them.

I got a solution for Oregon. Turn the gas pumpers into teachers. Gas pumping school. They'll get public union bennies, and mad respect.

[PartyOf5]

Eh, I'm not touching that nozzle without being forced to. Oregon is doing just fine, thanks. In the event of catastrophe, or driving through California we’ll ask one of the locals how to work the confounded contraption, otherwise we prefer the human interaction and supporting jobs. And if it’s so damn simple then it’s nothing to boast about that you “get” to do it. Mopping the floor is easy, maybe we shouldn’t have janitors for restrooms, just a self service mop and some rags.lol

A more accurate comparison would be having a bathroom attendant there to wipe your butt for you. Knowing coastal liberals that's probably on the agenda for 2018.

[K@th]

we’ll ask one of the locals how to work the confounded contraption

If you are over the age of six, it should be pretty easy to learn in less than 2 minutes.

[Speaker to Animals]

In New Jersey too, no pumping your own gas.

Truly odd to me. I don't think I've ever had a person pump my gas for me and I've been driving since the mid-80's.

I'm loving the freak out, though. Good stuff. I hope this comment is satire, but it's hard to know.

I've lived in this state all my life and I REFUSE to pump my own gas. I had to do it once in California while visiting my brother and almost died doing it. This a service only qualified people should perform. I will literally park at the pump and wait until someone pumps my gas. I can't even

I have heard that in NJ you can't pump your own gas and it's because so you can't just speed off and not pay at the pump. Also I heard that their is one place in NY state that has outlaw the pumping of your own gas.

Oregon regulations say that any counties above 40,000- you can not pump your own gas.

Gas stations have license plate cameras now.

[brewster]

I have heard that in NJ you can't pump your own gas and it's because so you can't just speed off and not pay at the pump.

I don't recall the last time I saw a pump anywhere where you didn't have to use a card or prepay inside. But then, I'm a coastal guy.