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Why Jersey girls − and guys − still don’t pump their own gas

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New Jersey is the only U.S. state where you can't pump your own gas. The state's self-service ban went into effect in 1949. It was born of a thuggish, Sopranosesque effort to thwart competition. Despite the ban's unsavory origins, New Jersey residents seem to like it.

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Why Jersey girls − and guys − still don’t pump their own gas

Sit back and relax -- you're in the Garden State. Kena Betancur/VIEWpress via Getty ImagesNew Jersey’s quirky reputation is hard earned, but one peculiarity stands out: It’s the only place in America where you can’t pump your own gas. Laws against self-service gasoline used to be common: In the late 1960s, nearly half the states in the U.S. had one. But as fuel dispensers became safer and credit cards made paying at pumps possible, those states…

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