Good question.
The station I was buying all my fuel from mounted speakers to the pumps blaring commercials at you while you pump your fuel. I now buy all my fuel from the station down the street that does not blast me with that crap. Fuel is same price, major brand.
Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')
Also - people are still going to go inside for their stupid tax (AKA: lottery tickets).
Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')
They're probably at truck stops. There are some. It was on car talk, when someone pulled into a self-serve station. They believe truckers, who have to maintain their own trucks, know more about filling up tanks than people who don't drive for a living.
Please show me a link where it says it is illegal for me to pump my own gas.
The reason for not top posting is to make it easier for other people to follow the thread. It's not about you, but respect for others.
Jeff
Jeff
Sure there is. It's required by OSHA on all gas pumps nationwide, and I've yet to see one that's missing it unless someone's driven off with the hose.
True, but usually the other fluids are complimentary at full service islands, which is why you're paying more per gallon of gas...
I'd still chap his ass for providing minimum service at a full service island, even get a manager involved if I had to. If I'm stopping at a full service island, it's because I don't want to do *any* of that myself that day.
I know there was a full service island at the Arco at Glenoaks(?) and the northbound I-5 freeway onramp by the cemetary in San Fernando as recently as the 1990s.
That's one thing we don't miss about retail self-service: Getting stuck in line behind Jonny Cripple who takes five times longer than mini-serve to pump and spill gasoline on the tarmac...
Too bad Oregon seems to grow (or is it cultivate?) such a miserable crop of human beings. We don't suffer the things you seem to, in other parts of the country.
Arco mini-serve stations piss me off for that reason and I'll go to any other station nearby if it's an option. Part of minimum service is not making me get out of the car to pay...
If New Jersey handles diesel self service like they do in Oregon, then a Public Utilities Commission number and commercial driver's license is required for self service. I never understood why self-service is so popular for truckers, though, although some of the Oregon and Washington based owner-operators are starting to get wise to the fact that if they don't jump through all the hoops to pump for themselves, they get 20 or 30 minutes free to go grab a meal or a shower while someone else refuels their truck at no extra charge.
I hear you about the low oil thing. Spun bearings have a really bad tendency to ruin your whole day don't they? lol. BTW I live in Iowa so I am nowhere near New Jersey or Oregon.
What about say police officers... or stand alone tank systems say at mills, or construction sites??
Please name a gas station that offers complimentary fluids other than air and water.
I've never seen anything other than air and water complimentary at any full serve gas station anywhere in the US, not anytime since the sixties anyway, maybe before that, but I wasn't a customer then...
I don't know what bazaro world you live in, but I find most people many times more careful with their own cars and their 3 plus dollar per gallon gas than any minimum wage flunkies pumping gas because it's the only job they can get.
Are you serious? If so, your definition of a scam is illogical, to say the least...
Most states have different sales tax rates in different communities.
Credit card companies put a stop to that, they will not let a merchant process credit cards if that merchant charges more for doing so. Just imagine how quick you would go out of business if you could not take plastic...
No it doesen't. Gas pumps have vapor recovery sleeves on the nozzles that do this. If the pump handle is pulled full on the fuel rushes into the tank so fast that air can be trapped in the tank baffles. When the handle cuts off the first time, if time is then given for the trapped air to bubble out, more fuel can be put in the tank. The issue is more prevalent with some car and tank designs.
The law is there because there are some morons who don't understand this and will just keep pulling the handle until they have raw gas spraying back out of the fill hole. THAT is what your probably thinking about with the preventing of pollution. But that isn't a failure of the gas pump, it is a failure of the brains of the people doing the filling to understand any of this.
Ted
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