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Post by drlj on Jan 3, 2018 15:59:35 GMT -5
In Indiana, rather than pump their own, many residents simply siphon yours. Hoosier drivers always have a length of hose in their cars and gasoline on their breath.
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Post by Doug on Jan 3, 2018 15:59:59 GMT -5
Wow, I have never seen that. I've seen people yapping on their phones, which is supposedly a no-no. And I've seen them sitting inside while the car is being fueled, a bad idea cuzza possible static electricity when getting out. I have seen them pumping and smoking! Almost got into a fight 20 years ago (I was obviously younger) when I slapped the cigarette out of the hand of a young punk at the next pump who insisted it was his right to endanger my family. Today, I would just leave. Sometimes wisdom comes with age. Sometimes age travels alone. I looked and I couldn't find a picture of a mid 60s gas pumper. Remember that guy 16, cigarettes rolled up in t-shirt sleeve, and a lit cigarette hanging out of his mouth.
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Post by dradtke on Jan 3, 2018 17:10:27 GMT -5
In Indiana, rather than pump their own, many residents simply siphon yours. Hoosier drivers always have a length of hose in their cars and gasoline on their breath. I why my gas mileage always goes down when we drive through Indiana.
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Post by Marty on Jan 3, 2018 17:21:45 GMT -5
I am surprised by how many people don't know that, in MN at least, it is illegal to leave a car unattended while pumping gas. They'll start the pump and then go inside to pick up a few items while the car fills up, not a good idea. Wow, I have never seen that. I've seen people yapping on their phones, which is supposedly a no-no. And I've seen them sitting inside while the car is being fueled, a bad idea cuzza possible static electricity when getting out. You will find a State required notice posted on one of the uprights between pumps.
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Post by Doug on Jan 3, 2018 17:44:47 GMT -5
For you people in the silly cold areas I'd think you'd want someone out there at ten below pumping your gas.
I didn't find gas more expensive in OR than WA or ID or NV and in CA it's a dollar more than OR.
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Post by billhammond on Jan 3, 2018 18:04:22 GMT -5
For you people in the silly cold areas I'd think you'd want someone out there at ten below pumping your gas. What we do is we make sure we fill up when it's warm, like above zero, not only to minimize the times we have to stand outside our cars, but to make sure there's no condensation forming in the tank when it's low on fuel, which can cause gas-line freeze. This past Saturday I stopped to buy gas on St. Paul's East Side at a station that is quite open to the elements, and it was super-cold and windy. While I stood by the fuel filler as the gas was going in, the wind was punishing my legs, so I actually moved to the opposite-corner front of the car to use it as a windbreak.
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Post by brucemacneill on Jan 3, 2018 19:35:02 GMT -5
Whenever I'm pumping gas in the cold I can mentally hear my father, "Finish college or you'll wind up pumping gas in the cold". Little did he know education now has no rewards like that.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jan 3, 2018 21:00:57 GMT -5
Wow, I have never seen that. I've seen people yapping on their phones, which is supposedly a no-no. And I've seen them sitting inside while the car is being fueled, a bad idea cuzza possible static electricity when getting out. I have seen them pumping and smoking! Almost got into a fight 20 years ago (I was obviously younger) when I slapped the cigarette out of the hand of a young punk at the next pump who insisted it was his right to endanger my family. Today, I would just leave. Sometimes wisdom comes with age. Sometimes age travels alone. In Vinton I see cops sitting in their cars with the engine running while they're filling their tanks. Someone mentioned the idea once that they needed to do this in case an emergency came up and they had to take off. This makes no sense, as they'd have to pull the pump out anyway. I've been known it sit in my car while the tank is filling on very cold days. But the door is wide open, I'm no further from the pump than if I was standing outside, and one foot is on the ground to avoid the static electricity possibility.
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Post by dradtke on Jan 4, 2018 9:53:04 GMT -5
What we do is we make sure we fill up when it's warm, like above zero, not only to minimize the times we have to stand outside our cars, but to make sure there's no condensation forming in the tank when it's low on fuel, which can cause gas-line freeze. I worked with an actor from Louisiana who was spending his first winter in cold weather. He'd never even seen snow. As it was getting colder we started telling him all kinds of lies about climbing out our second story windows to shovel snow, or setting our alarms to go outside every hour to start our cars all night long. Finally someone told him about putting a bottle of Heet in the gas tank to prevent gas-line freeze, and that one was so over-the-top he knew we were lying. And that was the only true thing we told him.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 4, 2018 10:55:19 GMT -5
I do have vague recollections of my grandmothers griping about the transition to self-serve back in the 70's.
We discussed this a while back, how the switch to self-service, motivated by price pressure during the OPEC era, accidentally turned gas buyers into convenience shoppers, and now we have these Taj Mahal style stores on every other corner. Goes to show you just never can predict how things will unfold.
Also, people in Oregon are a bunch of whiners.
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Post by Doug on Jan 4, 2018 11:30:38 GMT -5
And it left millions of HS boys with no jobs and you know what millions of HS boys with no jobs do. Millions of HS girls.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jan 4, 2018 13:06:37 GMT -5
In California, when self serve gas stations first came in, they were sold to the public as a way for the customer to save money. And at first, that’s the way it worked. You could go to a full service island, for a bit more per gallon, or a self serve island for a bit less. But over time the full service disappeared and the savings evaporated as the oil companies learned how easy it was to screw us.
I don’t mind pumping my own gas, but it’s a far different experience pumping gas in 70 degree weather in the desert vs a driving rain storm at 35 degrees in the winter in OR.
And it’s not mostly high school kids who will lose minimum wage jobs, but ex cons who will no longer have a way to make ends meet. Gee, I wonder what their fall back plan will be?
Mike
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Post by david on Jan 6, 2018 0:31:46 GMT -5
Also, people in Oregon are a bunch of whiners. Oh yea, well come over here and say that!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2018 12:09:31 GMT -5
I saw a hilarious one on Facebook this morning. Apparently, a third of Oregon's cars are now broken down because people chose to pump the green gas into them. I go to the Indian reserve to get my gas. They pump it, clean my windows and it's 13 cwnts a liter cheaper. Hard to beat that.
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