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If you ride a motorcycle in New Jersey or Oregon, do you pump your own gas when it's time to fill up? Apparently you are breaking the law if so. Personally, I would not trust anyone else, except a fellow motorcyclist I knew well, to fill my bike up. Hell, sometimes I don't trust myself to do it (I've spilled gas on the paint on more than one occasion). But if you live in one of these two states, according to this article, the law says you can't pump it yourself.

Why New Jersey motorists still can't pump their own gas

In Oregon the law was modified to allow motorcyclists to pump our own gas, but the stations all let me do it before the law was changed anyway. Every so often there is a ballot measure to allow (it pretty much works out to "require" in other states) people in cars to pump their own gas, and it always fails.

enigmaT120 wrote:In Oregon the law was modified to allow motorcyclists to pump our own gas, but the stations all let me do it before the law was changed anyway. Every so often there is a ballot measure to allow (it pretty much works out to "require" in other states) people in cars to pump their own gas, and it always fails.

Here in Crowdorado you couldn't find an old-fashioned gas station, where they pump your gas, wash your windshield, check your fluids, etc, if your life depended on it. It's all self-service here, and probably almost everywhere else (except NJ and OR) in the US.

I wonder why the ballot issues always fail? Sounds like people in OR don't really want to pump their own gas.

Yeah, in Oregon the attendant has to set the pump and then hand you the nozzle, so the "trained attendant" is still in control of when the pump is turned on. As enigma says, the few times I was up there before the law was modified, they still did the same thing anyway, even if it wasn't exactly according to the law.

I would say that 99.9% of petrol stations in Australia are self serve.

Pumping gas was one of my first jobs as a kid.

I was always polite and asked "can I check your oil, dipstick"

ME 109 wrote:I was always polite and asked "can I check your oil, dipstick"

What a goofy law!! If we Californians can learn to successfully pump their own gas, anybody can!

Actually, we don't "pump" gas, we dispense it.

Chuey

I've wondered about the toxic exposure to the attendants in OR and NJ. In the 48 self serve states, we have distributed gasoline/petrol exposure to the driving public at large, but in those two we are concentrating it on the filling professionals. Can this be measured as a public health situation? Worker safety?

Actually, we don't "pump" gas, we dispense it.

melville wrote:I've wondered about the toxic exposure to the attendants in OR and NJ. In the 48 self serve states, we have distributed gasoline/petrol exposure to the driving public at large, but in those two we are concentrating it on the filling professionals. Can this be measured as a public health situation? Worker safety?

My wife's taking a nap, but I'll ask her later. She works for Chevron in their Research and Technology Company, and she might have the answer to this.