gas in oregon

[kyladycaver]

Question for the oregon folk:

 

Don't you pump your own gas? Some dude yelled at me in Terrebonne as I was pumping gas into my car yesterday.....he kept saying "lady you're in oregon, you're in oregon" (I'm thinkin "yeah, I'm blonde but not that dumb...I, uh, know I'm in Oregon." But evidently I am more blonde than I thought cuz when he saw that wasn't getting thru he switched to "you're in oregon...you can't pump your own gas here." What's up with that?

[catbirdseat]

Just some dumb law.

[barjor]

I hate the oregon gas pumping law. Wait for some dumb fuck to get his lazy ass over to my car, just to have him spill the whole side full of gas.

[bunglehead]

Well, when that law was passed, gas pumping was considered a desirable "High Tech" sector career, with all them levers and siwtches and numbers and what not.

[Ratboy]

That's why I get gas just before I cross into Oregon and try my damnedest to have enough gas to cross back before refueling.

 

Oregon gas.

[Alan]

That's why I get gas just before I cross into Oregon and try my damnedest to have enough gas to cross back before refueling.

 

Oregon gas.

 

Absolutely.

[cj001f]

Good god. The only thing dumber than the gas law is people who get bent out of shape over it. "mommy, please can I have my hands smell like gasoline and stand outside in the wind? Please?"

[chucK]

Yeah, I used to fret about buying gas in Oregon too. It was scary because it was different .

 

Once I realized getting your gas pumped in Oregon does not cost an arm and a leg more (like "full-serve" back when it existed), I no longer feared it.

 

Now I'm just scared of buying stuff in Canada.

[Farva]

Good god. The only thing dumber than the gas law is people who get bent out of shape over it. "mommy, please can I have my hands smell like gasoline and stand outside in the wind? Please?"

 

[minx]

Good god. The only thing dumber than the gas law is people who get bent out of shape over it. "mommy, please can I have my hands smell like gasoline and stand outside in the wind? Please?"

 

 

so true. it's not any more expensive so why the heck not have someone pump your gas and clean your windshield????

 

someone at a gas station told me that the law was passed to protect jobs.

[Alan]

 

someone at a gas station told me that the law was passed to protect jobs.

 

I sure hope they don't have any ATM's, then.

Edited June 27, 2005 by Alan

[kyladycaver]

the guy did say to me...."you're can't pump you're own gas, because you'd be taking away my job!"......then to show me who was boss, when the pump clicked off, he made wait forever before coming back out to "do his job!"

[Ratboy]

Try gettting gas in Oregon after say 11pm, particularly in the smaller towns. You can't. All the stations are closed. And god forbid you get to pump your own after hours. But I avoid it mostly on principle. Fuck 'em.

[rat]

give an oregonian a living wage... throw your empties out the window.

[Dechristo]

give an oregonian a living wage... throw your empties out the window.

 

The modern ditch-digger.

[Dru]

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[Dechristo]

You forgot "apprentice crack ho"

[AlpineK]

Good god. The only thing dumber than the gas law is people who get bent out of shape over it. "mommy, please can I have my hands smell like gasoline and stand outside in the wind? Please?"

 

So basically what your saying is you're a wimp cause your afraid of not smelling like your favorite colongn...Calvin.

 

Oregon: there is no decent alpine climbing, tons of hippys, and you can't pump your own gas. Face it your state sucks

 

I know you're right now, but don't worry go get yourself a double orange moca frapichino with a twist of lemon; you'll feel much better.

[cj001f]

Oregon: there is no decent alpine climbing, tons of hippys, and you can't pump your own gas. Face it your state sucks

 

I know you're right now, but don't worry go get yourself a double orange moca frapichino with a twist of lemon; you'll feel much better.

 

It's not my state anymore. I now have more granite & bc skiing than you could do in a lifetime. And I live .5 blocks from a sunny beach. Have fun in the rainy jobless mess that is the Northwet

[AlpineK]

Don't worry I've got a job.

[cj001f]

Don't worry I've got a job.

Someones got to pick up the cans and bottles. Too bad they've don't have coffee cup deposits!

[Alpinfox]

 

I wish WA would require a deposit on cans and bottles.

[AlpineK]

It makes sense to recycle cans, but glass should go right in the garbage. There is no conservation of anything in recycling glass.

[klenke]

Really, Kurt? I hadn't heard that. Can you point me to the research/evidence to confirm this? Curious.

[AlpineK]

I don't have sources; cause I'm too lazy to search.

 

Basically glass is heated up sand. It takes the same energy to heat sand as it does to truck used bottles back to the glass factory and melt them down to turn them into new bottles. Furthermore since glass is sand it isn't going to leach anything nasty into the aquafer under the dump.

 

If they made bottles to be reused instead or melted down then ther would be an energy savings; but they don't.