And yes, not pumping your own gas is pretty nice, especially in a rainy state like ours. I wish when I visited non-pumping states that the gas stations would take a little extra money to come pump my gas for me.
Interesting.
Most areas have a few stations that you can pay for the attendant to pump your gas. I usually avoid those lanes or pushing the attendant button.
In fact, when I used to commute thru the Willamette valley I had a membership to an unmanned station just so I could pump my own.
I've never banged the pump handle into my vehicle nor broken the filler door by bumping into it...I found that for as much as the folks around and just north of Corvallis like to tell other people what to do and how to live, they sure don't like it when somebody tells them. Maybe they are the ones getting into bitcoin.
You can pump your own gas at the Seven Feather's station on I-5 South of Roseburg. It's got some sort of Indian tribal rights deal going. But who wants to? Gas is cheaper in Oregon even with someone else pumping it than it is down the road in California.
I very much like the regulation about having needing an attendant. It's probably cut the amount of property crime in half by providing some semblance of a job for certain of the borderline retarded inhabitants in the poverty stricken towns. Of which there are many. The other thing which makes in possible to service the 1500 square mile county I live in with two or three on-duty sheriff's deputies is that it is rare indeed that a rural home does not have a ready supply of weapons of different calibers handy. My personal go-to piece is a shotgun.