A bill has passed the legislature and is waiting for the governor to sign it.
Oregon’s self-serve gas ban voted out by lawmakers after decades - oregonlive.com
There will still be full service available, but the transition for a lot of people will be messy.
I think it’s about time, but I can hear the complaining already.
About time. I’ve lived in Oregon for most of my life and lately (for certain values of “lately”, more like “for the past decade or so”) waiting for a pump jockey to come up to the window and take my card has taken longer than the actual fill-up. Plus, they won’t top off my tank. My car has some weird fill neck design and the pump shuts off before the tank is filled, so a “fill-up” gives me more like 3/4 of a tank, not a full tank. Just let me do it. I’ll get it done in half the time and fill my tank right.
My Jeep has a finicky fill port also. I hope most people line up for full service and I can just gas and go.
Why will it be “messy” for a lot of people?
Oregonians dispensing gasoline, what could go wrong?
I HATE driving through Oregon because of that law. Maybe I’ll stop avoiding it now.
Probably not.
They probably aren’t allowed to top off. The pumps around here are well marked against it, too.
Experience in other states, when self-serve went away, was that full service gradually became hard to get. That’s my recollection for Pennsylvania.
Just in time for the EV takeover.
Do they require attendants at Superchargers?
And where do Oregon gas stations import their foreign expert pump attendants from currently? Washington? Mexico? Outer space?
It is a really, really bad idea. If your car has a “finicky” neck, you probably need a visit to the mechanic to ensure that you’re don’t have some damage or a blockage. Otherwise your car was intentionally designed this way and you need to stop “topping up”, it’s dangerous and terrible for the environment.
I will be watching the news from Oregon for the multiple explosions of cars and/or pumps (as I understand it from previous threads on self-pump versus “full service”, this is the inevitable result of this change)
If memory serves, I believe this law mandates 50% of the pumps remain full-service, with the other 50% being self-serve.
Honestly, I think 75% should be opened up to self-serve, but I’ll take what I can get.
Personally, I’m glad they’re leaving it 50/50. I’m perfectly capable of pumping my own gas, but it’s nice to not have to. I don’t mind waiting for the operators most of the time.
Especially in a driving rain.
Also when wearing expensive shoes
We have already been able to pump our own gas in less populated Oregon counties, technically only from 6pm to 6am, but nobody cares any more. I don’t think that anyone has pumped gas into my car, except for me, in probably 2 years. There are no gas pumping police.
Do Oregon gas stations not have roofs over the pumps?
They do have roofs.
I find it kinda sad that one argument I hear over and over, is “I don’t want to get out in the heat, or cold, or rain, or smell gas fumes.” It’s fine if someone has to do it all day long for minimum wage, but drivers can’t deal with it once a week.