Regarding: “Poll on self-service gas: Ask a stupid question …, " a recent Paul Mulshine column:
A recent poll showed that 73% of New Jerseyans do not want to pump our own gas. Mulshine thinks that the question was asked in a stupid way. He quotes those who think the result would have been different if the poll question was, “Would you prefer to have the option of self-service gas if you could get it at a lower price than full-service?”
My response is, absolutely not! I will happily pay a few cents more to sit in my warm/dry/safe car. But, that is a moot point because I have paid more for gas in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, etc., where self service is not banned. Last week, Mulshine suggested that only boobs don’t understand that gasoline is cheaper in Pennsylvania than in New Jersey, but their state gas tax is higher, so it just seems that their gas is more expensive than ours.
Well, count me among the boobs, because I don’t care what the reason is. The bottom line is that less money is coming out of my pocket in New Jersey.
Also, in response to self-service backers who complain about having to wait a few minutes for an attendant to fill their cars: What’s the rush? Why is it so stressful to wait five minutes in our comfortable cars? I never let my tank get so low that I can’t just wait until next time if there’s a long line at my station.
Patricia Broderick, Verona
If I buy something, I want service
I have already contacted my state representative urging them not to allow self-service gasoline in New Jersey.
Where does this insanity end? Supermarkets have eliminated express lanes. Big-box stores have eliminated ALL attended checkouts in favor of self-service ones. When I pay money for your products, I want service!
Gas prices go up and down by a dollar or two every couple of years. How is saving a potential 15 cents a gallon (the self-service price reduction predicted by station-owners’ groups) going to save money for most residents of New Jersey in the long run? You can bet that 15-cent savings will disappear into the next wave of price swings. The jobs eliminated at the pumps will never come back.
So what if a couple of pumps at some stations aren’t attended (due to a labor shortage) and have orange cones in front of them? And, newer stations are designed to be a lot faster, as evidenced by my local Costco, where I am in and out in seconds after waiting maybe five minutes to get to the front of the line.
Columnist Paul Mulshine has written that auto enthusiasts will save time and money with pump-your-own gas. Crapola! If you can wait at a fast-food drive thru or a bank ATM line, you can keep your keister in your car seat for a couple of minutes of actual service.
Not to mention, in recent surveys, 87% of WOMEN do not want to get out of the car to pump gas. So, Mulshine and his misogynistic auto-surfer-macho dudes can stuff it. We don’t have to take that crap in New Jersey. Keep full service the way it is. It works for me.
Kristine Floren, East Windsor
N.J. doesn’t need county sheriffs’ departments
In a recent op-ed, David B. Harris, a public interest lawyer, gave very valid and cogent reasons why New Jersey’s county sheriff officers should not be guarding courthouses.
One aspect that Harris did not address was that, even though they are so-called “county” courts, the Superior Court system is administered by the state. In addition to the impropriety of having county employees working in state courts, it occasionally leads to conflicts in basic work scheduling. The day after Thanksgiving one year was an issue, since the state courts, unlike the county involved, did not observe this day as a holiday.
Creating a statewide court security system would eliminate the potential conflicts outlined in Harris’ article. It would also be a gigantic first step in the total elimination of an archaic and relatively useless bureaucracy in all 21 counties called the “Sheriff’s Department.”
Why do we need up to three different entities patrolling streets and highways? Why do we need “deputies” involved in law enforcement in addition to local police? Those towns that are too small to have their own police force are also too small to be independent; this would be a major impetus towards rational consolidation.
And, since sheriffs provide jail security in some counties, why not incorporate the county prisons into the state system?
Kenneth Newman, Pompton Plains
These ‘heroes’ work with COVID-19 captives
In her recent op-ed, “Vaccine mandates are no way to treat heroes,” newly elected Assemblywoman Beth Sawyer, R-Gloucester, is reiterating her political base’s position on vaccine mandates, in this case, for New Jersey’s health care and prison workers.
Sawyer fails to point out that, unfortunately, the people these supposed heroes work with usually are not free to leave their situation. Patients in nursing homes and hospitals and those incarcerated in jails and other high-risk congregate settings do not have the ability to go to places that are safer from COVID-19. They need the people they interact with to take precautions to limit their own exposure to the virus and other health problems.
Requiring these workers’ vaccinations is a common-sense precaution.
Susan Deile, Marlboro
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