Monday 18 August 2014

One Thing We Always Take For Granted Out Here,

is that you sit in your car or stand by your bike,


as an attendant fills it with gas/petrol, diesel, what ever, where as in the UK and most of the USA it is self service except in Oregan and New Jersey, why on earth would licensed drivers not be trusted to fill up on their own? it’s not exactly rocket surgery after all, the answer lies of course in the State laws, New Jersey enacted the necessary legislature to ban people from pumping their own gas in 1949, this was just two years after the first self-service gas stations in the U.S. opened up in California, with the popularity of self-service exploding like the gas fires Oregon and New Jersey legislatures were so afraid of when they passed laws banning it, 


Oregon decided self-service was a safety hazard two years after New Jersey, in 1951, and the legislators went so far as to include 17 reasons why they think people filling up their own gas tanks is a bad idea, so when in Oregan and you roll into a service station sit tight and wait for the attendant, if you do not you’ll get a nice $500 fine if you try to break the rule.


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