Despite bipartisan support, a sufficiently compromised bill, and a crisp, professionally crafted public relations campaign to back it up, Oregon lawmakers have once again failed to legalize self-service gas stations statewide.
The state legislature adjourned earlier this week without passing H.B. 4151. That bill would have let full-grown adults fuel up their own cars, provided gas stations also kept a prescribed number of full-service pumps for motorists who weren't quite ready to handle their own nozzles.
