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August 7, 2023

After 72 years, you can finally pump your own gas in Oregon

  • Under the new law, there can't be more self-service pumps at a gas station than full-service ones.
    • By ANDREW SELSKY
    Associated Press

    SALEM, Ore. — For the first time in 72 years, Oregon motorists can grab a fuel nozzle and pump gas into their cars without an attendant, since a decades-old ban on self-serve gas stations has been revoked.

    Gov. Tina Kotek signed a bill on Friday allowing people across the state to choose between having an attendant pump gas or doing it themselves. The law took immediate effect.


     
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