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Originally Posted by sgtcarrot
The reason for this law that makes WAY more sense is simple: Insurance.
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I seriously doubt a station in New Jersey saves enough on insurance to pay salaries and benefits for unnecessary employees. If there were really that much of a difference in insurance rates, there would be stations in other states hiring pump attendants to get the discount.
The reason the law went into effect was price fixing, as I posted somewhere above. The reason it
continues in effect is that women don't want to get out of their cars. Polls show that 78% of women in New Jersey are opposed to repealing the law because they'd have to haul their fat lazy asses out of their cars to pump their own gas. Politicians are afraid to change the law because to do so would be framed as part of a "war on women."
No politician wants to be the woman hater who made them pump their own gas, so New Jersey stations get to keep paying for unnecessary employees.