One of the Democratic candidates for Delaware U.S. Representative, Scott R. Spencer, has scheduled a press conference today to propose a jobs initiative to create over 300,000 jobs, this year, by restoring full service at gas stations nationwide. Spencer will ask Dover state lawmakers to require full service by July 1 in Delaware and Congress to require full service nationwide by October 1.
The press conference will be held Thursday, March 4 at 4 p.m., at the Shell Station, 3001 New Castle Avenue, New Castle.
“By restoring full service gas pumps we’re going back to the future to put people back to work,” Spencer said in a press release. “Oil price fluctuations, worldwide market forces and profit maximization have absorbed the gas price savings motorists initially enjoyed when full service was eliminated in the 1970s. As a result, today, we are paying full service prices but providing the oil companies with free labor to pump their profits for phantom savings. 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.”
During the press conference, Spencer will also discuss the following benefits of full service gas pumps:
• 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;
• Provides the State of Delaware with over $1 million in more payroll taxes and public assistance savings.
“Full service gas pumps will help our nation’s economic recovery by bringing the economic opportunity of an entry level or part-time job back to our highways, back to our neighborhoods, back to Main Street and back to the gas station on the corner," Spencer said. "Full service gas pumps are good for the environment, good for the economic recovery and good for employment.”
