Question About States Where They Pump Your Gas For You (NJ & OR)

[All Star]

Seriously, you're scared of someone pumping your gas for you? Find me one person who has had their car "damaged" by a fuel attendant. I've never had a problem all my life.

[Kleeeb]

Originally Posted by Scooter11

I'm going to use 2012-1822's wise choice and not respond to that...

You kind of did. Don't get so upset when people have their own opinions. Frankly, all I am saying is that I like to swipe my card, pump my gas, and go. I wouldn't get annoyed by the employee themselves, only the process needed to go through to simply get gas. I have nothing against the state of NJ itself, I just find it silly that there is a LAW where you are not allowed to use your own money to pump your own gas in your own car if you feel like it, but rather must have someone else do all of the things mentioned in the ladder.

['11RS]

Originally Posted by Scooter11

I live in the northern part of the state which is nothing like "South Jersey" so if you haven't been up by me, trust me it's a totally different state with different politics.

Indeed, that is true.
We believe in personal freedom & responsibility and like guns and shooting and all sorts of outdoor activities down here. Unlike the polluted and badly overcrowded (most densely populated place in the nation) northern part of the state where they think everyone who has earns any $$ should be forced to give it to those who are too friggin' lazy or stupid to earn their own. Like you said........ we, thankfully, have very different politics down here from the mass of ill-bred, poorly educated and stupid northern Jerseyites. Believe they even have TV shows about you folks up there. You must be famous.

[Arbgast]

In Oregon it is a law you can not pump and can not top off. When it clicks, that's it. Indian casino gas, you can pump your own.

[jperaino]

I have lived in NJ for 66 years and have owned some pretty expensive cars. I have never had a problem with someone pumping my gas. Hey, here in NJ that is the law. If you don't like it you are free to go to NY or PA and pump your own and pay more. Jersey has some of the cheapest gas prices in the nation. I know a lot of people who live in NY and PA who come to jersey to get their gas. Oh well you can't buy fireworks here either...

[SnowmanBeats]

Damn pump jokies lmfao

[SteelShadows]

Oregon here, and depending on where you go to fill it up they can be very strict on trying to fill your own tank. Before I moved up here I had an old coworker who drove up into the state and went to fill their own car for their first refill. The employee actually sprinted over from the building yelling that they couldn't, and that it was illegal. He explained fully once he got there, but it's the whole running over to him yelling that was funny.

I've only had my car a couple months but I've noticed more often then not the attendants are actually more careful with my camaro then most other cars. You'll always get some who are just going through the motions, it just means you have to keep an eye on them while they are filling it to see if you need to do anything after to clean up or not.

[Stecky]

Originally Posted by snymat68

Just found this on another site:


N.J.S.A. 34:3A-6 provides as follows:
It shall be unlawful for any attendant to:
a. Dispense fuel into the tank of a motor vehicle while the vehicle's engine is in operation;
b. Dispense fuel into any portable container not in compliance with regulations adopted pursuant to section 8 of this act;
c. Dispense fuel while smoking; or
d. Permit any person who is not an attendant to dispense fuel into the tank of a motor vehicle or any container.
The law provides that it is the attendant who is committing the unlawful act and not the driver.
The fines to which the attendant is subject are pursuant to N.J.S.A. 34:3A-10, which provides in relevant part:
A violator of any provision of this act shall be liable for a penalty of not less than $50.00 and not more than $250.00 for a first offense and not more than $500.00 for each subsequent offense.

That is the reason why gas is cheaper in NJ that PA. The Station owner gets a break on Insurance.

['11RS]

Originally Posted by Stecky

That is the reason why gas is cheaper in NJ that PA. The Station owner gets a break on Insurance.

While I don't know that your thinking isn't correct (we used to be not only the most taxed but the highest insurance of the 50 states........ still the most taxed, but insurance has caught up in many other states - thank your state congress folks), the primary reason we have lower gas prices is we have lower taxes on gasoline (go figure). NJ makes it up, and then some, on taxing everything else. Like $12 bridge tolls, etc.

[Norm Peterson]

Originally Posted by Ryanbabz71

Do they swipe your credit card too?


Ryan

Don't know.

The attendant at the Pennsauken NJ gas station where I get nearly all of my gas now asks me "fill it up, super, cash?". Doesn't seem to matter which car I drive up in.

Used to be you didn't pump your own gas most everywhere, so when we moved to NJ 35 years ago there was nothing different about getting gas here than there was about getting it in the places we'd lived in before.


Norm

[Blu Ray]

Perhaps in other parts of the country , but here in Jersey your in your 60K camaro is nothing special, and jumping out to pump your own gas because you dont want the clerk to touch your car, will get you laughed at by the aston martin, Range Rover, Porsche and Bently drivers who follow the rules.

Same goes for touchlesss carwashes, many on this site despise them, and might be for good reasons in other parts of the country, but up North, 100k + cars are not rare..... these guys are professional, do a great job, what would take me 1-2 hours can get done in 15-20 minutes.....

Even still your car your choice...drive it like you stole it

[GlennP]

I have no problem pumping my own here in NJ. I just jump out as I pull in an kindly state that I got it, thanks

[Nutro]

Doesn't surprise me from a state with stupid gun laws.

[Blu Ray]

Originally Posted by Nutro

Doesn't surprise me from a state with stupid gun laws.

Please keep it civil and not interject politics