Oregonians Freaking Out About Having To Pump Their Own Gas

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,669
    Horos said:
    :lol:
    I went up through Oregon one year on my way to Washington and stopped in this little town for gas.  This gristly looking dude came up to my, glanced at my license plate and sneered, "From California, eh?"  I thought he was going to knife me or somethings.  Now it's true I was born in CA and lived here most of my life but have also lived elsewhere so I said, "Yeah, and Washington, New York , Pennsylvania..."  He just kind of grunted and spat on the ground. I said "Yeah, you have a nice day too!"  :lol:
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    Unbeknownst to me, this is apparently a thing close to home. 

    http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/richmond-coquitlam-soldier-on-with-decades-old-ban-on-self-serve-gas-pumps

    Richmond is a municipality immediately beside Vancouver (and the location of the airport), while Coquitlam is further out. Even though I drive to and from Vancouver fairly often I have never filled up in either, so had no idea they still prohibited self-serve. Initial stated reasons (in 1966!!) were related to safety, but as has been mentioned on here, more recently the issue of youth employment was raised.

    I'm not sure when I last heard of someone causing a fire or explosion at a self-serve station, though. 
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  • F Me In The Brain
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    Do they pump your gas for you in Tillicum?
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Do they pump your gas for you in Tillicum?

    There's a whole lotta pumping going on in Tillicum.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,759
    oftenreading said:
    Unbeknownst to me, this is apparently a thing close to home. 

    http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/richmond-coquitlam-soldier-on-with-decades-old-ban-on-self-serve-gas-pumps

    Richmond is a municipality immediately beside Vancouver (and the location of the airport), while Coquitlam is further out. Even though I drive to and from Vancouver fairly often I have never filled up in either, so had no idea they still prohibited self-serve. Initial stated reasons (in 1966!!) were related to safety, but as has been mentioned on here, more recently the issue of youth employment was raised.

    I'm not sure when I last heard of someone causing a fire or explosion at a self-serve station, though. 
    The fire thing was from the 60s. They no longer use that to justify it. It's just about youth employment now.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    edited January 2018
    When I first moved to Oregon I stopped at a gas station, proceeded to fill my tank and an attendant came running out screaming bloody murder at me.  I literally thought I almost blew up the joint based on his reaction.  Had no idea about Oregon gas pumping laws. 

    I was was more confused than Steve Martin in "The Jerk" when he thought that shooter hated cans ...


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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,874
    oftenreading said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Do they pump your gas for you in Tillicum?

    There's a whole lotta pumping going on in Tillicum.
    Takes a lot, some days.  Other days?  Just a bit.
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  • mace1229
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    Jason P said:
    When I first moved to Oregon I stopped at a gas station, proceeded to fill my tank and an attendant came running out screaming bloody murder at me.  I literally that I almost blew up the joint based on his reaction.  Had no idea about Oregon gas pumping laws. 

    I was was more confused than Steve Martin in "The Jerk" when he thought that shooter hated cans ...


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  • Jason P
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  • dankind
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    F Me In The Brain said:
    oftenreading said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Do they pump your gas for you in Tillicum?

    There's a whole lotta pumping going on in Tillicum.
    Takes a lot, some days.  Other days?  Just a bit.
    I hear that a two-pump chump is in town.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,874
    dankind said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    oftenreading said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Do they pump your gas for you in Tillicum?

    There's a whole lotta pumping going on in Tillicum.
    Takes a lot, some days.  Other days?  Just a bit.
    I hear that a two-pump chump is in town.
    Sometimes the gas it out before even being inserted into the car. 

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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    F Me In The Brain said:
    dankind said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    oftenreading said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Do they pump your gas for you in Tillicum?

    There's a whole lotta pumping going on in Tillicum.
    Takes a lot, some days.  Other days?  Just a bit.
    I hear that a two-pump chump is in town.
    Sometimes the gas it out before even being inserted into the car. 

    Speaking from experience?
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,669
    Let old Neil fill 'er up for ya!

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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,874
    oftenreading said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    dankind said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    oftenreading said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Do they pump your gas for you in Tillicum?

    There's a whole lotta pumping going on in Tillicum.
    Takes a lot, some days.  Other days?  Just a bit.
    I hear that a two-pump chump is in town.
    Sometimes the gas it out before even being inserted into the car. 

    Speaking from experience?
    Some days are better than others!  ;)
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    mace1229 said:
    rgambs said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    The US is such a weird country. 
    Not being able to pump your own gas could be the premise of a Twilight Zone episode. 
    Yep.
    America, where you can buy an assault rifle at the gas station, but you can't pump your own gas lol
    Serious question, is that a real thing?
    I've never seen it or even heard of a gas station selling guns. But I didn't know private party sales were legal without a background check or going through a licensed dealer until a few years ago because I've always lived where private party sales and "gun show loopholes" were illegal. 
    Nah, just joking.
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  • rgambs
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    PJ_Soul said:
    mace1229 said:
    Always thought that law was stupid. Have family in Oregon and I feel like such a waste of time. If you go at off hours there might only be 1 person working the store who has to run in to work the cash register, back out to pump, help other customers. I've waited over 10 minutes to just get the pump started before.
    You go at busy times they might have more employees, but then there's a line of people waiting. I've almost never found it convenient. 
    And for those who lived in OR their whole life and don't know how to do it, I would imagine every gas station will have a full service option for years to come. I remember most gas stations in California had a full service lane until the mid 90's they faded out when no one used them.
    I do prefer stations that have both self-serve and full-serve. Having a choice is always nice..... That said, y'all should gtfo of your cars when at all possible and this wouldn't be an issue. ;)
    Hey now, you city folk that think you're slick walking to work ain't got it all figured out, everything in your life has to be shipped to you because major metropoli like Vancouver produce very little food and material goods. 
    Your carbon footprint might not be as small as you think it is :wink:
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  • rgambs
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    oftenreading said:
    mace1229 said:
    I also don't get the idea that minimum wage should match the cost of living/livable wage for that area. Since when is it a right to live in the most expensive cities in the country?
    I lived in San Diego for several years. Know why I moved? Couldn't afford it.
    My wife lived in NYC for 5 years. Know why she moved? Couldn't afford it.
    If you can't afford it on whatever job you have, obviously you don't have a job tying you down preventing you from moving to a more affordable location.
    It is no one's right to live near a sandy beach. If there's a federal minimum wage for $10 and you have no skills, education or experience to get a better job, what is wrong with moving to a place you can afford?
    I've done it, my parents have done it, my wife has done it. Numerous friends have done it. What is wrong with that?
    I just don't get why employers should be forced to pay a wage that would allow you to live in a city you can't afford based on the skills you have. It isn't your right to live in Los Angeles, if you can;t afford it move an hour away where the cost of living is literally 1/3.
    Cities simply can't function if no one who earns only minimum wage can live there. How do you run a city when you have no one to wash the dishes, clean the hotel rooms and office buildings, work in the coffee shops and grocery stores and, yes, gas stations? It's completely short sighted to say that these jobs, some full time, shouldn't pay enough to at least scrape by. No one is saying that wages for these jobs should be enough to make life easy in a larger city, but if they aren't possible then the city as a whole struggles. 
    Good!  Down with cities!  Death to cities! 
    People need to spread the fuck out and learn how to live locally.  Humanity needed major cities to reach the level of civilization we have, but we have instant worldwide communication now, and we need to shift our population models to reflect that.
    Fewer people, spread out across sustaining environments needs to be the future, if there is to be one for us at all.
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  • mickeyrat
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    rgambs said:
    oftenreading said:
    mace1229 said:
    I also don't get the idea that minimum wage should match the cost of living/livable wage for that area. Since when is it a right to live in the most expensive cities in the country?
    I lived in San Diego for several years. Know why I moved? Couldn't afford it.
    My wife lived in NYC for 5 years. Know why she moved? Couldn't afford it.
    If you can't afford it on whatever job you have, obviously you don't have a job tying you down preventing you from moving to a more affordable location.
    It is no one's right to live near a sandy beach. If there's a federal minimum wage for $10 and you have no skills, education or experience to get a better job, what is wrong with moving to a place you can afford?
    I've done it, my parents have done it, my wife has done it. Numerous friends have done it. What is wrong with that?
    I just don't get why employers should be forced to pay a wage that would allow you to live in a city you can't afford based on the skills you have. It isn't your right to live in Los Angeles, if you can;t afford it move an hour away where the cost of living is literally 1/3.
    Cities simply can't function if no one who earns only minimum wage can live there. How do you run a city when you have no one to wash the dishes, clean the hotel rooms and office buildings, work in the coffee shops and grocery stores and, yes, gas stations? It's completely short sighted to say that these jobs, some full time, shouldn't pay enough to at least scrape by. No one is saying that wages for these jobs should be enough to make life easy in a larger city, but if they aren't possible then the city as a whole struggles. 
    Good!  Down with cities!  Death to cities! 
    People need to spread the fuck out and learn how to live locally.  Humanity needed major cities to reach the level of civilization we have, but we have instant worldwide communication now, and we need to shift our population models to reflect that.
    Fewer people, spread out across sustaining environments needs to be the future, if there is to be one for us at all.
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  • Go Beavers
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    rgambs said:
    oftenreading said:
    mace1229 said:
    I also don't get the idea that minimum wage should match the cost of living/livable wage for that area. Since when is it a right to live in the most expensive cities in the country?
    I lived in San Diego for several years. Know why I moved? Couldn't afford it.
    My wife lived in NYC for 5 years. Know why she moved? Couldn't afford it.
    If you can't afford it on whatever job you have, obviously you don't have a job tying you down preventing you from moving to a more affordable location.
    It is no one's right to live near a sandy beach. If there's a federal minimum wage for $10 and you have no skills, education or experience to get a better job, what is wrong with moving to a place you can afford?
    I've done it, my parents have done it, my wife has done it. Numerous friends have done it. What is wrong with that?
    I just don't get why employers should be forced to pay a wage that would allow you to live in a city you can't afford based on the skills you have. It isn't your right to live in Los Angeles, if you can;t afford it move an hour away where the cost of living is literally 1/3.
    Cities simply can't function if no one who earns only minimum wage can live there. How do you run a city when you have no one to wash the dishes, clean the hotel rooms and office buildings, work in the coffee shops and grocery stores and, yes, gas stations? It's completely short sighted to say that these jobs, some full time, shouldn't pay enough to at least scrape by. No one is saying that wages for these jobs should be enough to make life easy in a larger city, but if they aren't possible then the city as a whole struggles. 
    Good!  Down with cities!  Death to cities! 
    People need to spread the fuck out and learn how to live locally.  Humanity needed major cities to reach the level of civilization we have, but we have instant worldwide communication now, and we need to shift our population models to reflect that.
    Fewer people, spread out across sustaining environments needs to be the future, if there is to be one for us at all.
    Fewer people will happen, but we have to get over the hump in the meantime.
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    I've been reading the thread. There are some good posts.

    Some of the reasons behind removing workers from pumping gas is for their safety. Gas attendants have been injured/killed pumping gas for losers during 'gas and dashes'. Prepaid gas is the way to go and automation works best for this in my mind.

    Moving to automation might remove a few minimum wage jobs, but it creates better paying jobs in the form of technicians and designers (among others).
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