The driver pumped down on the accelerator, and with the free gas given to every citizen of Turkmenistan, the car moved past my line of sight, and he was gone.
State Senator Gerald Cardinale, a Republican from Cresskill, said that letting drivers pump their own gas would reduce the price of petroleum by as much as 5 cents per gallon.
Faced with withering criticism from residents and officials from both major political parties, Gov. Jon S. Corzine said yesterday that his idea of starting a pilot program to let drivers pump their own gas was low on his priority list.
New Jersey's ban on self-service gas stations could be phased out under a proposal announced yesterday by the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that would let drivers pump their own gas at the state's 3,200 gas stations.
They simply do not isolate well enough for one to hear the drivers pump out the jams, which they seem to do quite well.
At an intersection in west Baltimore that has become the base for demonstrations, cars honked their horns and drivers pumped their fists in the air.
We got carted around in this Escalade and told the driver to pump up the jams, which he was happy to do.
A small crowd — drivers, pump attendants, waitresses, clerks from the convenience store, and one very angry and bedraggled young man, who said that he was dying of cancer and needed to talk to Merle "as a friend to a friend" — had ringed the Super Chief, and Steve Van Stralen was kept busy handing out publicity photographs and explanations as to why Merle couldn't come out and talk.
Most (38.6 %) were primarily working in the mines as engine drivers, pump operators, crane operators, or mechanics.
The culprit seems to be the hold-open clips on nozzles that allow drivers to pump gas hands-free and re-enter the car to, say, keep warm.
