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#23452 Aug 13 2013 at 10:27 AM Rating: Excellent
I don't have a lead foot! There was a lot of uphill driving, especially after the CA/OR border, and I did a lot of passing because I was driving too fast for trucks in the right lane but too slow for cars driving in the left lane. (Sorry, I'm not in the mood for a speeding ticket from the Oregon state police). The mileage I got is impressive, all things considered.

And believe me, I wanted to drive into Washington to fill my own gas but my dad wanted me to fill the tank in Oregon for the slightly cheaper prices. I went to the Costco station near Portland airport and got 3.619/gallon. I believe the Costco just across the border was priced at 3.679/gallon.

Edited, Aug 13th 2013 9:31am by Davejohnsan
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#23453 Aug 13 2013 at 10:28 AM Rating: Excellent
someproteinguy wrote:


I'm 19.
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#23454 Aug 13 2013 at 10:32 AM Rating: Excellent
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Sir Davejohnsan wrote:
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I'm 19.

Smiley: disappointed

Oh, well in that case, I linked for your dad, of course... Smiley: um
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#23455 Aug 13 2013 at 10:32 AM Rating: Good
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Sir Davejohnsan wrote:
The attendant who filled my tank was nice, but he topped my tank off to the nearest dollar, and I wanted to punch him in the face for doing that. I told my dad that next time, I'm taking a five-minute drive across the state border to fill my own damn tank.

Edited, Aug 13th 2013 9:15am by Davejohnsan



...Why?

And people LIKE pumping their own gas? Every time I leave NJ I remember how happy I am it's a full-service state.
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#23456 Aug 13 2013 at 10:35 AM Rating: Excellent
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Sir Davejohnsan wrote:
(Sorry, I'm not in the mood for a speeding ticket from the Oregon state police).
Yeah there's a couple of town along the highway that actually patrol the interstate looking for out-of-towners to ticket. Something about them being too far away to actually want to come back to fight it and just paying the ticket. One of little towns got in trouble a while back for it IIRC.

Crazy stuff.


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#23457 Aug 13 2013 at 10:36 AM Rating: Good
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Every time I leave NY I remember how happy I am I don't have to drive just to get some milk.
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#23458 Aug 13 2013 at 10:37 AM Rating: Excellent
http://www.epa.gov/donttopoff/

And it's not that I enjoy pumping my own gas, but it is something I've been accustomed to doing since I started driving.
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#23459 Aug 13 2013 at 10:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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idiggory, King of Bards wrote:
And people LIKE pumping their own gas?
I prefer to most of the time, when it's not terrible weather and stuff. It's faster than waiting for the attendant, especially when there's like 10 cars there and only 1 or 2 people working. Your car is full, and that nozzle is sitting there in your tank, taunting you.

Taunting you... Smiley: mad
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#23460 Aug 13 2013 at 10:40 AM Rating: Excellent
Oh yeah, and I almost felt like a fool for assuming the attendant would need my zip code. I guess that's a California thing.

At least it didn't take him long to figure out I was a traveler. :P
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#23461 Aug 13 2013 at 11:04 AM Rating: Good
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Sir Davejohnsan wrote:
someproteinguy wrote:


I'm 19.


Ugh, finally. I'm not the youngest person on the forum any more.
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#23462 Aug 13 2013 at 11:07 AM Rating: Good
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I almost never wait. Maybe I would if our stations weren't busy enough to keep the attendants moving. But it's relatively rare, all things considered, to pull into an empty station in NJ. Population density and all that.

On the occasion I have to wait a minute for the attendant, that's what smart phones are for. WAY preferable to having to get out of my car when it's pouring, 10 degrees, etc.

That said, the only times I generally see people topping off the tank is if they're paying with cash. Because people don't really want to wait for change. I usually pay with my card (because I don't typically carry cash in the amounts filling my tank costs), and the attendants almost never stop it.

I also most frequently head to WaWa stations. One's blocks from my house, and is on the way to the parkway, and one is on my route to the parkway to get back home. There ARE other options on my way home, but the roads get worse rapidly as you approach rush hour, and the WaWa is far enough down that you can avoid the worst of it.
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#23463 Aug 13 2013 at 11:12 AM Rating: Good
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IDrownFish of the Seven Seas wrote:
Sir Davejohnsan wrote:
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I'm 19.


Ugh, finally. I'm not the youngest person on the forum any more.
Poor guy, not being able to drink beer at 19. It's just depressing.
#23464 Aug 13 2013 at 11:36 AM Rating: Excellent
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idiggory, King of Bards wrote:
I almost never wait. Maybe I would if our stations weren't busy enough to keep the attendants moving. But it's relatively rare, all things considered, to pull into an empty station in NJ. Population density and all that.
Yeah, most of the stations in our town at least are pretty small, usually only 1 attendant. So when you end up with 4-5 cars showing up, there's a bit of a wait. Followed by something like "Daddy, is the car done eating yet?"
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#23465 Aug 13 2013 at 12:08 PM Rating: Good
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Yeah, but you're not a self-service state, right? All of our stations are appropriately staffed, because you can't pump your own gas.

Having only one attendant makes sense if it's going to be an optional service, or if they're only there in case there's a problem.

Our smallest stations might have only one attendant. But, in my experience, four pumps can be fairly easily managed by one attendant. Every so often, you'll hit a station where there's 8 pumps to one attendant, and that gets rough, but it's generally rare.
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#23466 Aug 13 2013 at 12:12 PM Rating: Excellent
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Right, we can't pump our own gas. Just for example, the 2 stations closest to us both have 8 pumps, generally one person in the mini-mart thing and one on the pumps.
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#23467 Aug 13 2013 at 12:18 PM Rating: Good
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See, that's super rare in NJ. Your state needs to get as good at ******** as NJ is.

Also, up your population density so that you can support multiple stations close to each other, so there's competition.
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#23468 Aug 13 2013 at 12:20 PM Rating: Excellent
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Yeah, we suck at the ******** thing out here. Way to passive-aggressive for our own good.
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#23469 Aug 13 2013 at 12:36 PM Rating: Good
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NJ drivers are also largely in a hurry at all times. The longer we wait, the less likely we buy a lot of gas at once. If you can get to me right away when I stop at a station, I'm more likely to fill up my tank than if you take a while.

So you ultimately get to sell me more gas by being overstaffed. And you average that out across all your patrons, and you should probably make more with the extra employee on at most hours. At least between 6 AM and at least 7 PM.
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#23470 Aug 13 2013 at 1:14 PM Rating: Good
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I don't think I've ever seen a gas station where you don't have to do it yourself. Then again, gas is so expensive here that every tenth of a cent you can cut on the cost matters to people.
#23471 Aug 13 2013 at 3:11 PM Rating: Good
It's actually against the law to top off a gas tank here. That guy could get fired if you reported him. Just saying. Smiley: sly
#23472 Aug 13 2013 at 4:00 PM Rating: Good
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Wait... how is that a law?
#23473 Aug 13 2013 at 4:05 PM Rating: Excellent
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Just speculating, but probably because of what Dave posted above.
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#23474 Aug 13 2013 at 4:20 PM Rating: Good
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Ohhh... I thought topping off the tank just meant filling it up...
#23475 Aug 13 2013 at 4:22 PM Rating: Excellent
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#23476 Aug 13 2013 at 4:25 PM Rating: Good
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It's against the law to pump your own gas? Why?

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