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Originally posted by ChuckElias
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Originally posted by rainmaker
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No I wouldn't. I live in Oregon where it is illegal to pump your own gasoline
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Illegal to pump gasoline? What in the wide, wide world of sports is the rationale for that? People who own cars can't be trusted not to overfill their tanks and spill the gas all over the station?
Seriously, Juulie, why in the world can't you pump your own gas?
Chuck
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I happen to like it (and I worked for an Exxon station for 3 years while I was in college). You don't risk smelling like gasoline when you are on the way to an important meeting. It also rains a lot here in Oregon (betcha didn't know that) and I get to stay in my warm, dry car. It also provides jobs to many people that don't have any significant skills or education or perhaps have fallen on bad times.
The State's arguments for keeping it are the jobs and an increase level of safety.
The downside is that you have to wait for the pump jocky to come to you car...some stations are quick and well staffed while others are so slow you are waiting a long time.