Rantz: Oregonians too dumb to pump their own gas?
Jan 4, 2018, 7:01 AM | Updated: 10:40 am
What would happen if Oregonians were allowed to pump their own gas? (File, Associated Press)
(File, Associated Press)
It turns out that many Oregonians are too dumb to figure out how to pump gas. That’s one of many takeaways from a recent poll by Medford-based TV station KTVL.
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Oregon is one of two states that doesn’t permit customers to pump their own gas. Thanks to a new law, however, you’ll be able to pump your own gas if you live in counties with fewer than 40,000 residents. KTVL asked their viewers if this was a good idea and, apparently, it’s not.
Commenters on the station’s Facebook page were apoplectic.
“I’ve lived in this state all my life and I REFUSE to pump my own gas,” Mike wrote. “I had to do it once in California while visiting my brother and almost died doing it. This is a service only qualified people should perform. I will literally park at the pump and wait until someone pumps my gas. I can’t even.”
Yikes. But it gets worse.
“Many people are not capable of knowing how to pump gas and the hazards of not doing it correctly,” claimed Tina. “Besides, I don’t want to go to work smelling of gas when I get it on my hands or clothes.”
Sandy, too, is concerned over how people will figure out the whole self-serve system, writing, “I don’t even know HOW to pump gas and I am 62, native Oregonian….. I say NO THANKS! I don’t want to smell like gasoline.”
Is it possible that they truly don’t know how to pump their own gas because they’ve never done it themselves? Have they never even seen a gas station attendant pump the gas for them?
Should we send some brave Washingtonians down to rural Oregon to show them how it’s done?
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