NJ Don't worry, New Jerseyans who can't be bothered to get out of your cars: You're not going to have to pump your own gas any time soon. The legislature in Oregon — the only other state that bans self-serve gas — is considering a bill that would allow residents in more than half its counties to pump their own gas. But the people who make the law in New Jersey are not planning anything similar.
In other words, you're not going to get them to hold a pump unless you put it in their cold, dead hands.
"Not as long as I'm Senate President," said state Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester), who decides what goes up for a vote in the upper house. "I think our system works. It's not broken."
A spokesman for Christie declined to comment on a "hypothetical bill." But Christie himself is on the record about the idea.
"It's never going to happen," Christie said in 2012. "There is just no appetite, Republicans or Democrats in the legislature, to make us a completely self–serve state... People in New Jersey love the idea that they've got somebody to pump their gas."
Assembly Democratic spokesman Tom Hester, Jr. said that he knew of no legislation similar to Oregon's and that Prieto would not support it.
New Jerseyans haven't been allowed to pump their own gas since 1949. And residents like it that way. A 2012 Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll found 63 percent of residents support the law.
I don't believe any of this.
ReplyDeleteYes, many people like the attendant pumping the gas for you.
But, please, if I can be out in 5 minutes, or have somebody pump my gas and it takes 10 minutes, of course i'll pump my own
we pay for this privilege. gas would be a little cheaper if we had self serve
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