A bipartisan bill would end New Jersey's status as the last state where you can't pump on your own.
Gas at Wawa in Egg Harbor Township in 2020.A group of state lawmakers just reignited one of the great New Jersey debates.It’s whether the state should eliminate its 73-year-old ban on letting people pump their own gas.
“Motorists in every other state are able to pump their own gas, and if a consumer wants to choose to not wait for an attendant, that choice should not be denied to them by state law,” state Assemblyman Ned Thomson, R-Monmouth, a sponsor of the proposal, said in a statement. “By providing a hybrid model, we can give consumers the option to do what they prefer when it comes to filling their gas tanks, while also giving them the opportunity to save money,” Assemblywoman Carol Murphy, D-Burlington, another sponsor, said in a statement.
“As a station owner, I know that the self-serve option will bring my businesses significant cost savings that I can pass along to my customers,” said Kashmir Gill, a member of the group who owns multiple stations in Central Jersey.The state’s ban on self-serve gas was enacted in 1949. For a while, New Jersey and Oregon were the last two states to ban self-serve gas. But Oregon allowed it for stations in smaller, rural communities in 2018.
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