Smell that? That's the smell of FREEDOM.

And the smell of gas because I've never learned how to pump and it's all over the ground please send help.

Now we can only make fun of New Jerseyans for being too stupid to be trusted around a gas pump.

I live in Washington. I remember one time crossing the border from Portland, Oregon to Vancouver, Washington. What's funny is that Portland has two rivers. The Willamette to the South and the Columbia to the North. The Columbia is the border with Washington. During that trip I stopped for gas, and figured that since I just crossed a river I must be in Vancouver. I got out and started pumping gas only for a guy in an orange vest to come screaming at me to stop like I was about to blow the place up, which is weird because as many of you know it's not that hard to pump gas? Turns out I was in the strip of land in Portland that's between the Willamette and the Columbia, and so I was still in Oregon.

Just a little funny anecdote about this whole situation.

If you have not experienced the lines for gas at an Oregon Costco, you've really missed out. End of an era.

So... are we celebrating a bunch of people losing their jobs?

Meanwhile, I live in a country where probably over half the gas stations have no personnel at all.

I remember one service station testing the concept of having staff help with gas, and it felt really awkward.

I live in Oregon and moved here from a self pump state, personally I love not getting out of my car to pump gas. Doubly so when it's shitty out. I hope most places around here keep the gas pump people. They probably will tbh because native Oregonians would have a fit, especially old timers.

Didn't they already allow self service in rural areas or was this somewhere else? I feel like I saw videos of people pumping gas in weird ways.

How does it lead to the phasing out of full service pumps when it requires half the pumps to be full service?