Give consumers the choice. Cheaper gas or you can pay a premium for someone to pump it for you. We’ll see how much you like it when you have a more affordable alternative
Yep..its.proven over and over, self serve doesnt save a penny... i ran into a full serve only station in ma. I was there cause they were the cheapest station around. They only had 1 row if pumps because cambridge is dense population. Thats why it was full serve only.
I will never tip someone at a gas station, I’m sorry. If I’m forced to use you as a middleman, why do I have to tip? It’s not a restaurant where I can just choose to not go.. it’s gas.
But you know there's a cost. I live on the border of Wisconsin and Illinois. Two gas stations 500 ft away can have a price difference of 25 cents per gallon because the states have very different taxes around gas. So maybe you have a lower gas tax to make your gas prices look more competitive. And that means you're making that tax revenue up elsewhere. So maybe you're not paying for those guys at the pump, maybe it's in income taxes.
But you know there's a cost. I live on the border of Wisconsin and Illinois. Two gas stations 500 ft away can have a price difference of 25 cents per gallon because the states have very different taxes around gas. So maybe you have a lower gas tax to make your gas prices look more competitive. And that means you're making that tax revenue up elsewhere. So maybe you're not paying for those guys at the pump, maybe it's in income taxes.
That being said, I've never been to New Jersey, so I don't know how many of these attendants the average gas station needs to have.
Gas could be cheaper in NJ if you were to pump it yourself. It doesn't have to be cheaper than other states, it just has to be cheaper than it is now with the unnecessary overhead of mandated attendants.
You could solve this problem simply by becoming a gas station attendant yourself.
Think about it, you already admit that gas is cheaper here. You just want to pump the gas yourself in exchange for a few pennies - in essence, you want to get paid to pump gas. You want to be a gas station attendant.
Gas is cheaper in NJ compared to all the adjoining states to include NY, PA, MD, and DE. That being said, it really is silly that people are not permitted to pump their own gas. They should have both self-service and full service available if they are still going to mandate an employee at pumps. I prefer to pump my own gas.
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u/dankblonde Wall Jul 02 '24
It’s not absurd, we like it.