When I was a kid most of the stations were full serve. Some of them had self-serve pumps, cost like 5 cents per gallon less or something like that. Not much, but enough to make people want to do it themselves. As time went on, finding a station that kept full service pumps got harder and harder. Most of them went out of business. Or just changed to self-serve. That was the reason given originally for the Jersey law, was to SAVE jobs not to create them. I worked part time in a gas station for awhile, and you'd be surprised just how many people cant figure out how to operate a simple gas pump. I'm not talking the credit card readers either, I mean figuring out how to lift a handle and pump gas. Especially elderly people. I think the time is coming around again for full service fuel stations. I've seen several here, and they do a very nice business. The key I think, is having people who know how to at least act like they know what they are doing, and have some professionalism about little things like not spilling gas all over the place. The positions pay a little better than the minimum wage cashiers, because those people are what make a full service station competitive in a place where gas is so expensive.
