old guy wrote:
we in rural Oregon still have attendants pump our gas. we are allowed to pump our own gas only at card toll island pumps. we had a rural gas guy lobby the oregon legislature to not allow people to pump their own gas back about 25 years ago, he won. he saved many jobs by doing so. most stations have young high school kids pumping gas for them. it helps the kids buy their own school clothes etc.
Yet another example of the government making me pay for something I neither want nor need. Sounds like that politician would argue that if we were to ban Eli Whitney's cotton gin and it's subsequent spinoffs, there wouldn't be an inner city youth employment crisis in this country.