Comments on: Virginia needs a law requiring full-service gas

By: dave

dave — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:30:27 +0000

It just dawned on me that we have full service gas right here on this blog every day . Just read Frank and suzie’s posts .

By: Kristen

Kristen — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:50:30 +0000

scott, I don’t get my gas on the turnpike and parkway, so you’re right, my point would go more to small locally-owned places. But I’d still say that the employees in question are no more likely to be felons than any other low paying job.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:28:39 +0000

True story that I heard on NPR years ago. I don’t remember where this happened, but a guy one winter, blew up his house after he put a can of gas that was frozen on his stove to thaw out.

By: scott

scott — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:49:25 +0000

Kristen, hmmm don’t think you’ve had your gas pumped in Jersey lately…. I did over Thanksgiving, twice. Those were some of the youngest gas station owners I’ve ever seen, pumping!

I’m just saying, “law of averages”-wise and making broad sweeping generalizations, not saying EVERYONE… that gas station attendant, as a position is more likely to hire a rehabilitated felon than say an engineering firm, or an investment banking firm. they simply have less opportunities than someone who is not… and thus have less opportunity.

Even if you take the whole felon argument out of the equation…. if you immediately put that many people out of work with a repeal of that law, crime on the whole will go up in some way.

And yes they do hire people specifically to work the pumps. There are plenty of gas stations with no “garage” attached. (Really, who’s going to drive way out on the NJ Turnpike or the GSP to get their oil changed).

By: dave

dave — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:05:56 +0000

joe

It sounds to me like you could have been talking about my uncle in Franklin County!

By: John Wilburn

John Wilburn — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 05:24:12 +0000

Justin True:

“It doesn’t aggravate me as bad as parents who smoke them nasty cigarettes in cars with their kids”

That is child abuse and it angers me when I see it.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:01:35 +0000

People smoking while pumping gas need to watch more tv. I think I learned from Wile E Coyote that gas and flames don’t mix.

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:31:07 +0000

If you are not mentally capable of pumping fuel into your car, unsupervised, should you really be allowed to operate a motor vehicle ?

By: joe

joe — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:28:44 +0000

Yes John Wilburn..
those pumps had a spinning handle
on the side opposite the pump…
You would crank it toward you till it stopped..
It required a good bit of effort..
That was to zero out the numbers from the last guy
who pumped.
I spent my baby years around Blacksburg/Christiansburg.

By: mike o

mike o — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:15:26 +0000

Dan, re: 2:07
Cool story…