New Jersey and Oregon were the last holdouts. Now it's just New Jersey. And "full service" is hardly the right term for the gas stations. You need to pay someone to pump your gas. They don't check tires, clean windows, check oil, or any of that. They just take your card, run it through the machine, and then pump your gas. It's a really strange experience when you come from ... just about any other state. It's also really annoying when there's one person working for a station with 12-16 pumps.
Not really sure the reasoning behind these laws. I could maybe see that way back in the day there might have been some odd health concern, but otherwise it looks like a way to keep people employed for a job that's not really needed in most cases. (There are some cases where people really can't pump their own gas, but most people seem to get by just fine once they figure out how to operate those strange machines. :) )
I will say that I noticed gas prices for NJ were lower than NY the couple of times I've had to get gas there, even with a person paid to do a job I could do. Says something about taxes, I'm pretty sure.
Wait, what?..pumping their own gas? I thought full service gas stations went away in the 80’s.
New Jersey and Oregon were the last holdouts. Now it's just New Jersey. And "full service" is hardly the right term for the gas stations. You need to pay someone to pump your gas. They don't check tires, clean windows, check oil, or any of that. They just take your card, run it through the machine, and then pump your gas. It's a really strange experience when you come from ... just about any other state. It's also really annoying when there's one person working for a station with 12-16 pumps.
Not really sure the reasoning behind these laws. I could maybe see that way back in the day there might have been some odd health concern, but otherwise it looks like a way to keep people employed for a job that's not really needed in most cases. (There are some cases where people really can't pump their own gas, but most people seem to get by just fine once they figure out how to operate those strange machines. :) )
I will say that I noticed gas prices for NJ were lower than NY the couple of times I've had to get gas there, even with a person paid to do a job I could do. Says something about taxes, I'm pretty sure.
Lower than PA as well. I'm not terribly close, but check the math every now and again to see if it's worth making the drive to fill up.
Wife's Suburban has a 44 gallon tank.