(11) The increased use of self-service at retail in other states has contributed to diminishing the availability of automotive repair facilities at gasoline stations;
(Who really takes their car to a Gas station for service anymore?)


I like that. Oregon has just as few service stations with a mechanic as anywehere else. Most newer stations now are the minimart no service types. Instead of a garage they have a rack of chips.

IMHO many laws like this often have ludicrous reasoning behind them because logic oftens works against them.

Jim Henderson

 

Jim, I was at my wife's station the other night, pumping gas for an elderly lady. There was a teenage girl, standing under the turn off you cell phone, you moron sign. She was yapping her fool head off. I walked over took the phone out of her hand, said into it 'she will call you back, she is too busy acting stupid to talk', turned it off, and tossed it under the passenger seat of the car.

She stood there, and started flapping her ignorant mouth, said she was going to call the police, for me assaulting her. I pointed at the sign, and said 'please call the cops, I never touched you'.

She read the sign, got in the car and drove off. Best part the wife then called the cops for her pulling the drive-off.

 

I wasn't aware of this. I wish they would enforce this, because I hate going inside to pay. It's downright inconvenient and now I know it's dangerous, too. The leg. is in session. I should go down to the capital and do a little lobbying at lunchtime.

Having someone pump my gas is so much faster. I pull up, tell them to fill it, pay and go. Only have to deal with one person and don't have to unfasten the seatbelt. A professional gas pump attendant can fill 4 cars at once and not miss a beat. Going to other states and take time figuring out the pump, then go inside and get in line behind a bunch of people buying soda at $5/gal. has never been faster or more convenient to me.

Sure, crossing the border into WA is sometimes a little cheaper, but that's the way it is at many border towns. It's the exact opposite if you go south. If you cross from Cali and fill in Ashland, you'll pay less and have someone pump for you. Over all, I've found gas prices to be about the same here in Oregon as other places in the NW, even with the $7.25/hr minimum wage we have here.

The only benefit I see to self serve is increased profit for the filling station, from only having one employee at a cash register and lucrative "back end" sales of pop and corn dogs.

It takes a while to get into the mindset of this state. We don't like to pump our own gas or figure out a sales tax every time we buy something. If you don't like it, you have the freedom to medicate yourself or die, up to you.... (BTW, we don't have self serve suicide here either - we have people that do that for us.) Oregon's a great place to visit, just don't move here.

 

I went to NJ with my 72' Winnebago and made the guy let me pump it myself. It's kinda tricky to pump the gas for it and quite frankly I don't like to let other people pump my gas. He was probably 400-500 lbs and I don't think he felt like leaving his little shack for me anyway. He didn't give me too much trouble.

My mom always goes to full serve and you should see the scratches on her car under the filler door, and on the filler door. After years of full serve it's all scratched up, I don't really know how they scratch it like that, carelessness I guess.

Most of the pumps have credit/debit right on it, or the mobile speedpass, so I think self serve is the way to go. I think around here in my neck of the woods, self serve beats full serve by about 70/30.

I like to pump my own gas, no scratches and I hate how they top it off too much, I've seen some attendants really force that last few cents into the tank and it's really not worth it. I typically stop on the first click, I usually use a credit card anyway so the change doesn't matter.