> On the plus side, gas stations generally move quite quickly in New Jersey.

This is really not the case at a busy station. You have to wait for the attendant to come to you to start filling the tank and then you have to wait again after the tank is full. At most, they'll have two attendants for the entire station, which means you end up waiting while he's servicing the other customers.

On the subject of annoying service stations/gas stations/petrol stations, the tirade that greets payment is now insane in New Zealand. Do you have fly buys? AA card? Discount vouchers? Would you like any of these sweets that are on special? A car wash? I know that the staff are told to ask these questions, but if they can find a way to make the service more irritating, I'd be slightly impressed.

  On the down side, it makes gas slightly more expensive.

Oh? For many years a fill-up was substantially cheaper in New Jersey than neighboring states, and whenever I was driving up from Washington, DC area to New York or Boston I would try to fill it in New Jersey (a full tank of gas was not a trivial expense for a poor grad student). The difference is small these days.