Oregon: Pump Your Own Gas Crisis

[de officiis]

Its currently 3 degrees here (tonight's lowest temp is -1. Tomorrow's high is going to be 5 degrees (at best) and they are saying that tomorrow's night's temp is going to be as low as -3 ) and with like -18 wind chills (tomorrow is supposed to be something like - 33 wind chills) and staying in my car so I don't have to pump my gas doesn't sound so bad.

That's fine. Just don't pass a law saying we all have to stay in our car, if some of us would prefer to get out and pump it ourselves to save a few bucks.

Sure okay but with these wind chills you are looking at frost bite, for exposed skin within about 5 minutes.

Oh for heaven's sake, why don't you grow a spine. Recently I was going through my mother's correspondence with a friend of hers from her Girl Scouts days. I found a letter that had a GS checklist in it that included the following, among many other questions:

Have you ever:
Walked in the open, fighting against wind and rain?
Swam against a river current, or in hard surf?
Climbed to the top of a hill or mountain?
Gone on a day's trip, under your own "steam" in a canoe, on skis or snowshoes, on a bicycle or a horse?
Played or worked hard in the sun for several hours?
Cooked an entire meal over an open fire?
Gone cross-country, without help of patch or trail?
Been all alone in the woods, or out in the open for an hour or so?

January 12, 1953.
Girl Scouts.

[Penner]

Funny how society usually bars women for centuries doing any work like that.

[Speaker to Animals]

Funny how, now that women are fully able to do work like that, they still don't. They complain about there not being enough women in STEM, even though all the scholarship and affirmative action benefits them there, but they seem silent about power line workers, sewage, timber, and fishing.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Funny how, now that women are fully able to do work like that, they still don't. They complain about there not being enough women in STEM, even though all the scholarship and affirmative action benefits them there, but they seem silent about power line workers, sewage, timber, and fishing.

Extremely valid point.

[de officiis]

Funny how society usually bars women for centuries doing any work like that.

Funny how it was encouraged of little girls in 1953 and no one knows that now.

[JohnDonne]

It’s almost like there’s folks green with envy in this thread, what else could explain people arguing against a convienience that they themselves are not privy to?

I’m not buying this whole it’s unfair you can’t pump your own gas argument. You have 48 states where you have it your way, you’d think that would be enough to satisfy anyone’s gas pumping urges. But hey, you like it so much? There’s these two states where they will pay you to do it, all day every day, amazing, I know. Oregon should be gas pumping paradise for you self sufficient pump technicians, a lotta money to be made. Just remind me to yank the little latch when I pull up, fill it up with regular, andale.

[DBTrek]

It’s almost like there’s folks green with envy in this thread, what else could explain people arguing against a convienience that they themselves are not privy to?

I’m not buying this whole it’s unfair you can’t pump your own gas argument. You have 48 states where you have it your way, you’d think that would be enough to satisfy anyone’s gas pumping urges. But hey, you like it so much? There’s these two states where they will pay you to do it, all day every day, amazing, I know. Oregon should be gas pumping paradise for you self sufficient pump technicians, a lotta money to be made. Just remind me to yank the little latch when I pull up, fill it up with regular, andale.

You should be able to do it your way.
/shrug

But also consider that your way may be making some people in that state unduly helpless.

• I don’t even know HOW to pump gas and I am 62, native Oregonian . . . I say NO THANKS! I don’t like to smell like gasoline!” one woman wrote on KTVL’s Facebook post.
  
  “No! Disabled, seniors, people with young children in the car need help. Not to mention getting out of your car with transients around and not feeling safe. This is a very bad idea. Grrr,” another woman wrote.
  
  “I’ve lived in this state all my life and I REFUSE to pump my own gas . . . This [is] a service only qualified people should perform. I will literally park at the pump and wait until someone pumps my gas.”

So are the poverty level jobs worth the social trade off?

Forty-eight states say no.

[Smitty-48]

Wayment, let me get this straight, you have a law, which prohibits you from pumping your own gas, and mandates a government approved worker to do it for you?

What kind of subhuman cockroaches are doing that job? The ones who were formerly panhandling you while you were sitting in traffic?

[Smitty-48]

It’s almost like there’s folks green with envy in this thread, what else could explain people arguing against a convienience that they themselves are not privy to?

I’m not buying this whole it’s unfair you can’t pump your own gas argument. You have 48 states where you have it your way, you’d think that would be enough to satisfy anyone’s gas pumping urges. But hey, you like it so much? There’s these two states where they will pay you to do it, all day every day, amazing, I know. Oregon should be gas pumping paradise for you self sufficient pump technicians, a lotta money to be made. Just remind me to yank the little latch when I pull up, fill it up with regular, andale.

You should be able to do it your way.
/shrug

But also consider that your way may be making some people in that state unduly helpless.

• I don’t even know HOW to pump gas and I am 62, native Oregonian . . . I say NO THANKS! I don’t like to smell like gasoline!” one woman wrote on KTVL’s Facebook post.
  
  “No! Disabled, seniors, people with young children in the car need help. Not to mention getting out of your car with transients around and not feeling safe. This is a very bad idea. Grrr,” another woman wrote.
  
  “I’ve lived in this state all my life and I REFUSE to pump my own gas . . . This [is] a service only qualified people should perform. I will literally park at the pump and wait until someone pumps my gas.”

So are the poverty level jobs worth the social trade off?

Forty-eight states say no.

Full service gas station is one thing, but government mandated with no competition? Sounds more like make work for convicts and drug addicts, who are they really hiring to do this scam, er I mean "job"?

Qualified professionals? What's the qualification, former panhandlers need apply? This is just state sanctioned panhandling, sounds like to me.

[K@th]

Wayment, let me get this straight, you have a law, which prohibits you from pumping your own gas, and mandates a government approved worker to do it for you?

Not a government worker, just an employee of the gas station. It's literally illegal to get out of your car and put gas in it. Stunning, truly, and the peeps in Oregon are scared of this law going away. SMH... Nanny's gonna come over and spoon feed them their dinner, too, and change their diaper when they makes a poop.