NBC: New Jersey is the only state in the U.S. that doesn’t allow customers to pump their own gas — anywhere. There’s always an attendant on duty to pump gas for customers at these full-service stations.
Oregon is the only other state besides New Jersey with a full-service law. However, Oregon’s laws are far less strict and allow certain parts of the state to have self-service gas stations.
“It goes back to the middle of the 20th century,” said Patrick Murray, the director of the Monmouth Polling Institute. “There were forces involved who wanted to protect their interests in terms of the smaller gas owners against mega gas stations that were starting to be built at the time that would require self-service to be profitable.” more here
If you dig into just about any business-related law that infringes on ordinary liberty you will find that it’s real reason for being enacted is to protect vested interests from competition, usually innovative competition.
As for NJ’s ban on pumping your own gas, I guess I’ve somehow missed all the news accounts from other states where whole filling stations have exploded killing dozens or hundreds of people.
I must admit, it the only thing I liked about NJ when I had to live there.
It was mostly appreciated during winter and anytime we were experiencing the heavy rains during hurricane season.
I always figured it was because Joiseyites were too STOOPID to do it. My theory still stands.
I’ve been to Jersey.
I’ve Met the people.
And THAT is why trey don’t pump their own gas.
New Jersey, America’s Quebec but with Kleenex instead of your finger.
^^^ They ^^^^
Who the fuck is Trey and why did he steal the [EDIT] Button?
^ Trey is a Frenchman.
We referred to Joisey, as “The armpit of America”.
One of my bad memories of my stretch in NJ, was waiting at the DMV for a large chunk of the day, to get my license transferred and my car inspected.
The very next day, some fuggin’ butthole, broke into my car and stole my inspection sticker.
Trey mans pump #3…..
Don’t fret yourself….
It is control over the people and nothing else….
Simple and effective CONTROL.
Most panic inducing memory.
I had to drop my husband off at the airport in Philly.
While I was dropping him off, an accident had shut down the Walt Whitman bridge, so traffic was being rerouted.
I was still pretty new to the area, and got lost in an area that was pretty dark.
I did find a police officer and asked for directions out of there.
He gave me the directions,his name and badge number (just in case) and the directive that if the traffic light is red, but nothing is coming, keep going and don’t stop until I was back in a safe area.
Apparently downtown Philly near The Zipper, was a real effed up area.
I can’t imagine it has gotten any better.
On the plus side.
Driving the “Sure Kill” expressway, gave me great training for the period of time I lived in Detroit.
bring back full service! people are much dumber these days than before. seen too many idiots w/ no clue what they’re doing w/ a gas dispenser
one of the most fun, best jobs I ever had was being a pump jockey at 16. gas up the car (ethyl or regular?), wash the windows (especially the cute co-eds from UMD! … mini skirt era!), check the oil, add air to tires & give out Top Value stamps. all @ 29 cents a gallon
still have a couple of steak knives we used to give away w/ an 8-gallon, or more, purchase
Scotland does this crap, unless they changed recently. I had a kid almost freak out when he saw me pumping my own gas.
Oregon also has State Liquor Stores. Go figure.
It looks like I can’t pump Ethyl in NJ. Guess we’ll go on vacation somewhere else.
I was in Jersey years ago for an AMA race weekend. I was on a Ducati 1000 and rode up to a pump (not knowing Jersey rules) and started pumping my gas. Some fat muzzie terrorist exploded out of the little box he lived in, hollering that I couldn’t do that. I told him to fuck off, and I’d break his neck if he touched my motorcycle. He waddled back to his box, and that was the end of that.
I used to pay a little more for full service when my kids were very small. Of course I’m old enough to recall when we got our windshields cleaned and oil checked!
Yeah we used to collect a set of dishes from our local station. I have a piggy bank from that place, too.
In New Jersey, you can cut a young girls’ tits off, and a young guy’s dick off, and sodomize children, but you cannot pump your own gas.
Joe Piscopo said it best
“…hey I’m from Jersey, you from Jersey, I’m from Jersey”
The Garden State is the arm pit of the nation. Flying into Newark airport, you realize you crossed into NJ by the smell that enters the airplane cabin.
Never understood how NJ has one of the highest property taxes for a state that offers…. nothing.
@ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
OCTOBER 24, 2022 AT 9:12 PM,
Yup! I used to work at Tantallon Exxon with Doug, Don, Goldy (Eric) and some others… those were some good times….. especially when the inebriated young women were headed home from a day of partying at Ft Washington park…. good times!
FJB
It was a good thing that the smell of gasoline was widely considered good because my clothing always stunk of it. Gas it up, check the oil, wash the windshield and check the tires. All while the owner of the station glared at you through the windows.
People got pissed when I washed the windshield of their freshly washed car but it was either that or catch hell from the owner. Oil came in metal cans that you had to pierce with the spout and if it didn’t leak bad, you were just lucky. You’d occasionally run across a car that was not one, not two, but three quarts down on oil and the owner of the car thought you were scamming him and with the oil level that low, you kinda wondered yourself. But you had to believe that the dipstick did not lie.
The owner would park in the lot of the shopping development across the way and spy on us when he wasn’t there.
It was a big step up from a paper route and the money I earned from both bought me a motorcycle and when the weather turned cold, my first used car.
Strangely, I had no urge to get tattooed or get my face pierced. Too busy working I guess.
Used to have to deliver potatoes to Jersey back when they dumped the City’s garbage in the meadowlands. Newark and Jersey City had the worst smells, however.
It was like a sausage factory was combine with a paint factory that burned.
mystaclean
OCTOBER 25, 2022 AT 6:04 AM
“It was a good thing that the smell of gasoline was widely considered good because my clothing always stunk of it.”
…when we were much younger and just married, I was still working on cars and I’d come home smelling of oil and gas and acetylene.
The wife, eh, very much liked that smell on me, and demonstrated it often.
Some days I didn’t make it past the door.
Bring back Super Service….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WTD_E9tGfc