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Should you be able to pump your own gas? Experts in the gas industry say it is "too dangerous..."
That would be the news only if they could overcharged you for attendants to fill your fuel or get get robots to do it, or both.
So this was a couple of years ago I was in western Nebraska traveling up to deadwood south Dakota. Stopped at a gas station, I see a car with Oregon plates and the guy acting clueless as to what to do.
I get out and he asks me what he needs to do. I was sort of dumbfounded that this guy didn't know how to pump gas and making a trip from oregon. I showed him.
A few months later I read it was required in Oregon for attendants to pump gas and people in general didn't and that most of the public didn't know how.
How did he make it to Nebraska without filling up at least once before that?
May have unironically gotten lucky with finding the stations with attendants who pumped gas and having really good fuel efficiency. I once stopped at a station I believe in elk bend where the dude did it for me and my Truck can get from Vegas to blackjack on a single tank if I'm feeling stupid. Mind you old Toyotas are most certainly in possession of a machine spirit so it may vary.
I don't think Colorado or Nebraska have any full service stations anymore
I don't think any states outside the northwest do, maybe the Midwest or great planes if it's piss cold enough but that would be the exception not the rule.
And now you understand how I was so baffled. It's still a mystery to me. Maybe he had someone show him he just wasn't comfortable doing it himself yet? Idk
You can pump your own gas now in Oregon. They still have dedicated gas distributor specialists however.