In reality if perfectly safe to pump gas into a running car and pumping gas while smoking is also perfectly safe.It these things wern't safe millions of cars would have blown up years ago.

People believed false things like:

Smoking and pumping gas is dangerous,not really true,it's really the fumes that are dangerous and they disapate in air and liquid gas will only ingnite with a blue flame,if you put a ciggarette in a bicket of gasoline it will actually go out.

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Pumping gas while a car is running is dangerous,no not at all,cabbies have for years pumped gas while the engine ran to save gas by keeping the car running 24 hours per day.If pumping gas to a running car was dangerous millions of cabs would already have exploded.

“$20, cash, regular”

I can easily see it going Canadian, if you know what I mean.

Not sure about NJ but in OR it's a "safety concern".

It's really just a jobs program for high school dropouts.

Show us on the doll where the landlord hurt you.

Last known photograph before leaving to "pick up some milk."

Originally it was because they literally didn't trust motorists to do it themselves. They have tried a few times in recent history to end the ban, but it always fails in one way or another.

Milford was too, until 2019 when a new station built got approval to be self serving

The reasoning when they made the law ~70 years ago was that it was a safety concern. Really, the full service gas stations relied on their garage business to make most of their money, it was a way to keep a guy out there who could look at your car and potentially sell you service in addition to the gas, while also not having to compete with lower-cost self-service stations.

The reason it’s still a law is that every time it comes up, politicians will cite the potential job losses and just continue to kick it down the road.

The poor people in Suffolk Country would be more unhealthy if they walked less. So yes its economics. There is also a lot of air pollution from cars and planes in the Boston area.

This has caught me out a few times when I've tried to self serve at one of these stations. Fortunately the attendant was very polite about my confusion, as I'd never been to a full service gas station before.

Yea, I'm sure this map is omitting many more town or county rules.

Somehow, this is Joey Kramer's fault

Access to healthcare would be the main contributing factor and I would even say GOOD quality healthcare is not really an option here at all. Noble and Baystate are laughable at best. My mom recently had a kidney transplant at UMass medical center in Worcester. Amazing experience. Amazing facility. I walked in the first time many years ago to UMass and went "oh those hospitals on TV aren't fantasy places."

I can't even begin to tell you the horror stories of baystate. But I'll sum it up by the time a doctor dropped an iPad on my head and started laughing uncontrollably. I was there for a concussion.

Catholicism and WASPs run rampant.

Liberal mass... yupPee!!

As president I will purchase an island somewhere warm. On that island will go criminals...so they can be outdoors and "free" but removed from society as a whole....

Arlington too, I hate it

Pack of Reds

I know new Jersey does not have self serve.

Does anyone know the reason why they ban it?

I bet you have a very punchable face and ur a fucking creeper.

Yea I would assume most people in Weymouth couldn't figure out a gas pump anyway

“normal” school ID I just have this for now just your basic ID

Honestly I don't think it was dramatically worse than any other rural area I've lived in. They all suffer from basically the same issues- poor infrastructure, poor access to care, difficulty in attracting applicants to most competitive healthcare roles (including MDs and DOs), underfunded, etc. I've lived in Western MA and Boston (never central MA) and Western MA may as well be a completely different state.

Yeah I just emailed ab that