Oregonians hate your 'they don't know how to pump their own gas' jokes
by Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times
Jan 06, 2018
3 minutes
Pumping gas. It's simple, right?
You drive up to the gas station. You get out. You pick regular or premium. You squeeze the handle. And then - you leave! (Ideally, after paying.) To most American adults, it's as familiar a ritual as getting out of bed.
Not to Oregonians.
For decades, they have been banned by state law from pumping their own fuel at gas stations, a throwback to the days when it was universal for gas station attendants to fill Americans'
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