OT: Re: SV: Re[2]: [AT] NC Trailer regulations

[Mike Sloane]

Kessen Mattias (Road SE) wrote:

> And I thought we have a lot of laws and regulations. BTW is it true
> that in some state(s) it is forbidden to fill your car with gas by
> your self at a gasstation?
Only in New Jersey, for reasons that nobody knows, except that the law 
dates back to the 1930's. I suspect it was the result of one or more 
fires caused by idiots pumping their own gas.

It has been suspected that the independent service station owners lobby 
keeps the law from being revoked in order to prevent the company owned 
gas stations from squeezing them out by offering low prices for "pump 
your own" fuel. As it happens, gasoline in NJ is generall lower priced 
than everywhere but Texas and Oklahoma. But that my have more to do with 
the tax rate than the cost of the fuel.

Mike
> 
> Mattias

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