Oregon’s Senate has repealed a 72-year prohibition against self-service gas, with new legislation requiring gas stations to staff half the available pumps, while allowing the rest to be self-service. The bill, responding to industry staffing shortages, also prohibits charging more for full-service than self-service, likely leading to the phasing out of full-service pumps.
Oregonian here, you are correct. This headline is kinda click baity, but they did expand that rule so it’s not completely off.
But yeah, if an area had under a certain population they were not required to staff the gas pumps. Higher population density areas it’s still required. Well, was still required. That’s gone now haha