The Governor signed the bill today lifting a 72 year old law that was way outdated. In Oregon you could not dispense gas, which is a class B flammable. You could dispense Diesel, which is a class II combustible, but not if there are located on the same pump. The state eased up on pumping your own gas in rural areas after a certain time of the day a few years ago. This new law still forces stations to keep a few pumps open for free full service. After reading a few articles, some people act like the world was ending. I get it, you still have people born in Oregon and never left the state, but these days over half the state moved there from California.
It is legal for you to pump your own gas in Oregon today
- Thread starter Finklejag
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Born in CA. Moved to OR. Got used to it. Then moved to WA (all before ~1988). Go to visit a daughter near Astoria a couple years ago. Costco. Of course I get out to pump gas...........nope..........funny how I forgot.
OT: I was thinking more like you were born in Arizona and moved to Babylon-a
dnewton3
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Draconian laws ...
My wife and I took a trip to Portland OR in my C6 Corvette and went south along the ocean to CA. The pump attendants told me that people that drove sports cars and Corvettes could either pump their own or have the attendant help filling the tank. I let them fill my tank and they were very courteous and carefull. I never had a chip on my paint from a gas pump altercation. Tip: Place like Costco or stations with newer pumps have some sort of shut off when filling the tank. The trick is turn the filler handle upside down and put it on the lowest setting and it won't keep clicking off. I learned this on a C7 Corvette U-tube video and it does work. Some vehicles are very sensitive to these newer pumps. Also when it clicks off don't keep filling it because you can damage the charcoal filter.
The real question is will the price of gas go down in Oregon because of it?
Idiotic laws like prohibiting pumping your own gas in OR and NJ are vastly outweighed by the concept of state sovereignty. The citizens get to choose their government and what laws it makes. Way more important than what the rest of us may think about their laws. I say bravo to the people of NJ and OR!
Actually, we midwesterners felt bad for you and this change was one of the requirements in the contract allowing Oregon and Washington to join the BIG 10 today. 
Don't give them any ideas.
But there is that one off idiot trying to fill petrol in a plastic bag. I can't decide how to process these rare but hysterical incidents if they ever happened to me.
a) hand they extra bag to keep from leaking
b) explain the hazards, persuade other ways
c) social media upload hoping for Likes
d) offer them a cigarette and lighter
e) call fire department
a) hand they extra bag to keep from leaking
b) explain the hazards, persuade other ways
c) social media upload hoping for Likes
d) offer them a cigarette and lighter
e) call fire department
MrQuackers
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Actually, we midwesterners felt bad for you and this change was one of the requirements in the contract allowing Oregon and Washington to join the BIG 10 today.
I wish they would have stopped at 16.
