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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