2006-06-23 09:15:01 · 13 answers · asked by Khael 4 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
Here are the "official" (and stupid) reasons:
- Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality supports the ban on self-service gasoline due to inexperienced pumpers being a significant source of groundwater and air pollution.
- Oregon's state fire marshall supports the ban on self-service gasoline due to the possibility of having one incinerate himself, his car, and/or others.
- Law enforcement officials support the law as it prevents gasoline thefts called "drive-offs."
- In states besides Oregon and New Jersey (which also has a no-self-serve law), many gas station owners ignore the requirements outlined in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as they do not provide a full-service option for disabled drivers, nor provide those services at self-service rates. Hence, disabled drivers in Oregon benefit from the self-serve ban.
2006-06-23 09:22:50 · answer #1 · answered by davidmi711 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called job security. As long as you have someone working at a gas station pumping gas, that wil keep the unemployment rate down. Whether that is really true or not, I honestly don't know, but I used to live in Corvallis and Salem for a long time, and as far as I know, the state government of Oregon simply doesn't want the unemployment rate to go up by allowing consumers to pump their own gas.
2006-06-23 16:20:13 · answer #2 · answered by Oscar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"New Jersey and Oregon are the only U.S. states that currently ban self-service gas stations.
The purpose of these laws was to protect consumers and gas station owners from costly, and possibly deadly, accidents. Better education and improved technology, however, have made pumping gas much safer and easier for consumers over the last 50 years. Since the 1970s, self-service gas stations have grown in popularity.
The New Jersey law was enacted in 1949 and the Oregon law in 1951. Each statute has stood up to several challenges in those two states."
2006-06-23 16:22:00 · answer #3 · answered by beagle_mj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, tonalc1 and davidmi711 have given the correct answers. Oregon ratified a similar law to New Jersey; in the past, apparently there were damages done to gas stations and cars by ignorant people who didn't know how to pump their gas.
2006-06-23 16:24:21 · answer #4 · answered by bracken46 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do beleive that there are 2 reasons. One is that employing gas-pump-jockeys is good for the economy (additional employment/jobs). Two (same as what answerer #6 stated) for safety reasons; people pumping there own gas tend to get in and out of their cars while the pump is going and that is the main reason for random gas fires (besides idiots smoking at the pump) due to friction generated with clothing and upolstry, gas spills, etc.
2006-06-23 16:24:10 · answer #5 · answered by Kher 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
New Jersey passed the law making it illegal to pump your own gas in 1949. At the time, legislators felt it was too dangerous to have untrained people dispensing such a flammable liquid.
2006-06-23 16:19:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but if you hum a few bars I'll fake it...
Actually, I think it is the belief that doctors, lawyers, etc do not have the proper intelligence/training to pump their own gas, so it is best left to a minimum-wage professionals who must be paid by increasing the price of gas. That pretty much sums it up, I think.
2006-06-23 16:21:26 · answer #7 · answered by northwest.poet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People from oregon can't be trusted, that's why.
2006-06-23 16:18:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the state law!!
2006-06-23 16:32:31 · answer #9 · answered by John 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to many people take off with out paying
2006-06-23 16:18:50 · answer #10 · answered by tropiccountrygirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋