# Gas Pump Handles

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-pump-handles/65430>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 14, 2001, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-pump-handles/65430 "2001-05-14T19:14:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![dqa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dqa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dqa)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2001, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gas-pump-handles/65430/41 "2001-05-17T00:56:12Z")

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> \*Originally posted by MC \*  
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> > Don’t ask me. I live in Oregon USA. The general public isn’t allowed to pump their own gas. We’re too stupid or just spoiled. I’ve yet to figure it out. - Seven
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> - Um, I don’t know which _you_ are, but on average, Oregonians would seem to be stupid. Oregon has laws that say that you must pay for a professional idiot to pump your gas, and so whenever you buy gas you are paying for the gas plus the idiot’s paycheck. Pumping gas isn’t real difficult, it doesn’t take a master’s degree in Gasology.  
> gasoline is not explosive. \*\*

New Jersey also has this law. Fortunately per gallon taxes are low, so even with the paycheck of the “professional idiot,” gas prices are well below those of adjacent states.

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