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Alex Tabarrok beat me to the\xa0essay on Oregon\u2019s self-service gas laws\xa0that I wanted to write.

Oregon is one of two US states that bans self-service gas stations. Recently, they passed a law relaxing this restriction \u2013 self-service is permissable in some rural counties during odd hours of the night. Outraged Oregonians took to social media to protest that self-service was unsafe, that it would destroy jobs, that breathing in gas fumes would kill people, that gas pumping had to be performed by properly credentialed experts \u2013 seemingly unaware that most of the rest of the country and the world does it without a second thought.