A federal government mandate making it illegal to pump your own gas would improve the economy

Thank you for your arguments Pro. I will begin by addressing your points.1 - Pro states that "A ban on pumping gas not only makes it so someone else pumps your gas but it makes it so someone checks your tires.". I assert that nothing in the resolution applies to someone checking your tire pressure for you. Making it illegal to pump your own gas only has direct implication on who pumps your gas. Anything else is only conjecture. Would the attendant also check your oil, transmission fluid, belts, fuel injectors, and spark plugs? The resolution is about who pumps your gas and nothing more. In addition, any decrease in tire wear will have a direct affect on the tire industry, reducing total sales. Any apparent savings would actually be negated through lost sales.2 - Properly inflated tires don't necessarily decrease stopping distances. A study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that under-inflated tires have an increased stopping distance on concrete, and decreased stopping distance on asphalt.[1] It could just as easily be argued that under-inflated tires can save lives. Pro referenced a summary from the NHTSA rather than the actual stopping-distance data.3 - Pro's assertion that customers will be saving money is unfounded. In fact, logic dictates that if a gas station has to hire additional attendants, it will have to increase its prices to pay for those attendants. So we see that the exact opposite is true. Customers will pay more to have their gas pumped for them.Pro also asserts that such a mandate would create thousands of new jobs. I ask, where would the money to pay for these jobs come from? Our economy is in a state of frequent layoffs due to companies not being able to make payroll. Pro provides no information into any companies' financial data to see if such mandates would be supportable, or if they would cause companies to be unable to meet payroll costs.4 - Pro provides that properly seated gas caps could save 147 million gallons of gas per year. The ultimate source for this information is a webpage from Advance Auto Parts, a seller of gas caps, with no reference for where this number comes from.[2] Are these from cars without gas caps(would an attendant give a cas cap to a customer without one free of charge?), or are these just damaged gas caps(would an attendant repair/replace damaged gas caps?) or are these from gas-caps that simply aren't tightened enough? No study is ever referenced, so this data appears to have no solid foundation.Additionally, Pro provides no basis for calling the average American an 'untrained amateur' when it comes to pumping gas.a,b,c,d,e,g - All of this data refers not to gas, or pumping your own gas, but tires, which aren't included in the original premise for the debate. Unless the mandate makes it illegal to pump your own gas and makes it mandatory for attendants to check your tire pressure, these points are all irrelevant.j - Unfounded data with no backup.k - The number of jobs in Oregon are irrelevant without considering if gas stations could afford to pay for new jobs. Pro's figure of 7,600 jobs comes from a website with no source for that figure. I would appreciate statistics that are supported rather than claimed.l - If we use Pro's figure of 600,000 new jobs, and Pro's figure of $20,000 yearly average pay, then we are imposing $12,000,000,000 of wages, let alone the cost of benefits and insurance, on gas stations across the U.S. The U.S. Census shows that there are 66,477 gas stations nation-wide as of 2008[3], meaning the average burden on each gas station would be $180,000 yearly to pay for the new positions. No new jobs can be created without taking money from the company employing the individual, or the customer paying for the product.If we take the money from the customers(by increasing gas prices), we can calculate the increase in price. The Department of Transportation shows that Americans drove approximately 3 trillion miles combined in 2010.[4] The Bureau for Transportation Statistics shows that the average gas mileage for all vehicles in 2009(most recent data) is 17.6 MPG.[5] This means Americans consumed 170,454,545,454 gallons of gasoline. To pay for all these jobs the average price of gas would have to be increased by approximately $0.07 per gallon. To make things clear, this is $0.07 per gallon that the average American won't be able to spend elsewhere on the economy. So the only thing that is happening is a shift of money from one sector to another. The rest of the economic sectors would lose the $12,000,000,000 that would now be spent on gas.m - Again, this has nothing to do with a mandate on pumping your own gas. Additionally, Pro calls the $6 billion 'wasted' money, even though it is money that goes into the tire industry.n,o - More information unrelated to the premise.p - This argument has nothing to do with who pumps your gas.q - This total figure uses unsupported(see previous arguments) and unrelated figures(see argument p)r - again, misleading information because money not spent on new tires is money that doesn't go into the tire industry.I propose that Pro must provide information showing:1 - How companies will pay for these new jobs.2 - How this mandate will create demand.Unless this mandate would increase demand, the economy will be unaffected. Demand drives economy. When demand increases, companies are able to produce more supply, and total cash-flow increases. With more demand and more supply, jobs naturally come into factor as companies start-up and expand.Trying to create jobs without affecting demand only results in transferring money from one sector to another, and can create dangerous financial bubbles.[1]http://www.nhtsa.gov...;- Table III-8 [2]http://corp.advanceautoparts.com...;[3]http://www.census.gov...;[4]http://www.fhwa.dot.gov...;[5]http://www.bts.gov...;