Self-Serve Fueling In New Jersey Already Runs Out of Gas

New Jersey drivers can pump up the radio, pump the brakes, or even pump their fists, but one thing’s for sure: They won’t be pumping their own gas.

Just days after state senator Declan O’Scanlon said he was sponsoring a bill that would allow the Garden State’s fueling stations to have self-serve and full-serve options, Senate President Stephen Sweeney is saying: No way.

Sweeney said that as long as he leads the state Senate, he won’t allow the bill to be posted for a vote, essentially making it dead, according to northjersey.com.

In a phone interview with radio station NJ101.5 (see video below), Sweeney said the issue wasn’t a priority in the state. As a result, the show’s hosts skewered Sweeney for taking too much control of the legislature and not letting a bill come up for a vote.

New Jersey is just one of two states left in the country to ban self-service fueling, along with Oregon, but that may soon come to an end. The northwest state is close to approving a bill that would allow self-serve stations in desolate parts of the state.