You can pump your own in parts of Oregon now

drsteve wrote:
Those whining about the "nanny state" might be interested to know that gas station owners, not bureaucrats, were the driving force behind not allowing customers to pump their own.

Let us first deal with the actual change in the law, originally put in place in 1951 for a number of reasons. It created jobs, was billed as a safety measure and as a way to keep older petrol patrons from having to inconvenience themselves at the pump.