There have been at least two attempts in my memory to change the Oregon law but Oregon voters voted it down each time decisively. The main reason was that it provided employment opportunities. This was back when jobs were kind of scarce.

It would be kinda nice to have stations that pump gas for you and wash your windshield. Hard to find in this state.
On the other end of the spectrum I just saw where an all robotic restaurant is a reality in California. I would be more concerned about jobs being lost then jobs being saved.

Around here you have to pump your own gas. Some stations are pre-pay while others aren't.

Pump your own gas here.

Why would it be law that u can't pump ur own gas

I believe in NJ it was to preserve jobs , didn't want to put the job of filling station attendant out.

they generally site some safety thing also like people will spill gas or use the wrong container ect.. so to have a person who knows how to pump the gas safely ....

mostly I think it comes down to 2 things , politicians saw it as a job loss and they started hand wringing about the possibilities of safety issues that just never panned out in other places

I don't think that's correct Pete. Way back in the late 40's a guy in NJ started letting folks pump their own gas. Since he didn't have to pay attendants he could sell it cheaper than other, full-service stations.

It started to catch on and the other guys got mad and lobbied politicians to stop the practice. Some powerful palms must have been greased in some shady backroom deals and the full-service guys got their way.

The Retail Gasoline Dispensing Safety Act was born and it made it illegal for drivers to pump their own gas. It was disguised as a "public safety" act. If that is to be believed then one must also believe that NJ and OR are the last two states that consider their citizens to be too stupid to safely pump their own gas.

At least Oregon recognizes that some of their rural folks are bright enough to fill up without causing disasters but not their citidiots, they still can't.

I understood that Oregon finally made it legal to pump your own, but most all the stations still have attendants that pump it. They are NOT full service, ALL they do is pump gas, there is no window washing or checking oil or anything. I have had a commercial fuel card for many years, and you could pump your own gas with that in Oregon, but not with a credit card or cash. Most all small towns in Eastern Oregon have a card lock only Commercial fuel station of one brand or another, and most of the residents have a card from whatever company owns the local card lock. There simply isn't enough customers for a regular gas station to afford to pay an attendant and often a cashier also to stay open twenty-four hours a day. Used to be if you didn't have a card for the local card lock when traveling through you would just have to sleep at the gas station until they opened in the morning if you needed gas. Now I believe you can fill up at a lot of them with a credit card.

Like you Bearcat I've been pumping my own gas for the last 30 years here in Oregon with my CFN card.

And I kind of chuckle at everybody that seems perturbed that there is a state that doesn't allow self pumping. If you don't live here why do you care? And why in Sam Hill does every state have to be the same? When there have been ballot measures to allow self pumping (here in Oregon) it has always been big oil that was the proponents. Why does Oregon have to bow down to big oil?

Who issues a commercial fuel card, and why?

the realities of the financials of it and how it gets sold to the public and getting mad at competition for undercutting a price , they did minimum mark up here , just made it so that they can't sell for less than X more than cost.

unless your at a private gas selling club , costco can sell lower than minimum mark up and it drives the price down for about 3 miles around a Costco gas station.

I am surprised places like Chicago and KKKalifornication do not rquire it. At least then the Homeless can get a job Huffing Gas!!

Who said anyone cared? We just think it's it funny you're still living in the 70's. Yea Big oil. The excuse for everything. They have nothing to do with you pumping your own gas or not. They just pull it out of the ground, refine it, and deliver it to you but somehow they are the problem. You might want to look at who you keep voting into office.

Oregon is now a choice state. You can pump your own gas. This is state wide now. But at most stations there are still attendants thawing pump it for you.

It seems to be loosening up in NJ too. We pumped our own boat gas every day there for a week at several different service stations. It seems the attendants aren't interested in filling up boats, motorcycles, gas cans etc. This was last month

What is a crime is the stupid safety catch on their nozzles. You can't just hold down the trigger and pump gas. There is a lip on every nozzle that has to be mashed down in order for the nozzle to work. Works fine pumping gas in a car, but makes it quite the pain to fill up a 6 gallon tank all the way in the floor of a jon boat