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Re:Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years by sidewndr46 on Monday June 26, 2023 @12:30PM (#36481975)
oh yeah I stopped somewhere once that required this and banned the latching handle mechanism. It wouldn't actually allow me to put the nozzle into my truck so I inverted the weird rubber thing and shoved a water bottle into the handle so I didn't have to stand there while it filled the truck.
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Re:Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years by mikestew on Monday June 26, 2023 @01:25PM (#36482844)
For a lot of cars, the gas cap itself can be wedged into the pump handle to keep it latched. The auto shutoff will still work.
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Re:Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years by evilkorn on Monday June 26, 2023 @04:59PM (#36485779)
I'll have to try my gas cap but I normally used my wallet because it was already out from paying if the latch was broken or missing.
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Re:Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years by darreninthenet on Monday June 26, 2023 @06:55PM (#36486953)
It irritates me because we don't have those latches in the UK as it's illegal to pump petrol unattended - I believe this extends to the EU as its an EU law we've retained.
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Re:Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years by rpadovani on Monday June 26, 2023 @07:15PM (#36487095)
Do you have any sources? According to Wikipedia, this regulation applies only in Australia, UK, and Taiwan.

Germany and Italy have the latches for sure.

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Re:Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years by darreninthenet on Monday June 26, 2023 @07:37PM (#36487281)
I do not, I just thought I read it somewhere years ago that it was an EU regulation... as you're saying it's allowed in parts of the EU I guess it can't be!
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Re:Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years by doetoe on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @01:21AM (#36502611)
I'm not sure if this was exaggerated on our side of the straight, but here we read quite a lot about Brexit politicians (including Boris Johnson) complaining about made up EU regulations they'd have to follow (a famous example was the ban on curved bananas)
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Re:Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years by darreninthenet on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @02:28AM (#36503059)
I don't think this was one of them, this was my error/misremembering, as we've never had those latches on our fuel pumps.

And don't get me started on Brexit and BoJo the clown... I'm still angry about that to this day

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Re:Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years by sidewndr46 on Monday June 26, 2023 @11:18PM (#36488493)
My truck doesn't have a gas cap
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Re:Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years by throwawaymobule on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @08:51PM (#36500846)
people shoving things into the handle is what got laws banning the latching thing repealled in some places. since it's safer to use something designed for the purpose.
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