"The best way to confront [the current] economic crisis is to create opportunity with real jobs, right now," he said at a press conference at a New Castle, Del., Shell station on March 4. "[image-nocss] We are paying full service prices but providing the oil companies with free labor to pump their profits for phantom savings."
He added, "Full-service gas pumps will help generate full-service economic recovery for those who need entry-level or part-time jobs and help put over 1,000 Delawareans back to work this summer. It will also provide the State of Delaware with over $1 million in increased payroll taxes and reduced public assistance costs for the unemployed."
Spenser also said, "Full-service gas pumps will help our nation's economic recovery by bringing the economic opportunity of thousands of entry level full-time and part-time jobs back to our neighborhoods, back to Main Street and back to the gas station on the corner.... Full-service gas pump jobs provided our nation with that stability and opportunity throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s. By restoring full-service gas pumps, we're going back to the future to put people back to work."
He also discuss the following benefits of full service gasoline dispensers: Convenience for growing senior citizen population, handicapped motorists and parents with children in child safety seats who need to pay the cashier. Eliminates the pollution and danger of gas pump spills. Eliminates the public's most vulnerable exposure to hazardous chemicals of any consumer activity: toxicity, carcinogen risks of gasoline are not rated by the EPA; potential dangers to pregnant women have never been studied. New Jersey and Oregon are the only two states that still require full-service gasoline dispensing by law.
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