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

I will fist provide an overview of my arguments and then go into details. 1)The ban on pumping your own gas would result in higher fuel economy and therefor lower total gasoline costs. The ban would also result in less wear and tear on tires and therefore less total tire costs. 2)The ban on pumping your own gas would result in less and less sever accidents, and therefore less money spent on repairing cars, and paying for car related injuries. 3)The ban would result in the direct creation of thousands of jobs and the indirect creation of even more jobs. 4)Even more savings via increased fuel economy via trained gas attendants. First I will post the explanations and then I will post the data afterwards. 1)Currently millions of Americans are driving with improperly inflated tires which results in more wear and tear on those tires, and a decrease in fuel economy. A ban on pumping gas not only makes it so someone else pumps your gas but it makes it so someone checks your tires. Generally over the long term tire inspections would be staggered to occur every other 10 days or so; however for the first few weeks of this policy tires would be checked every time in order to quickly achieved a large increase in properly inflated tires. This increase would result in higher fuel economy and longer tire lifespans. 2)Properly inflated tires also results in quicker stopping times for vehicles, meaning fewer accidents and saver driving. 3)Due to the fact that gas stations will now need to hire gas attendants it will result in thousands of new jobs. Also due to the fact that consumers will be saving money that increase in spending will result in even more jobs. 4)Having a trained gas attendant instead of a bunch of untrained amateurs can result in more savings via properly sealed gas caps. Now I will post the data. a) 38% of cars have at least one tire 20% below optimal pressure resulting in 76 million cars being 8psi below optimal levels [1]. b) 27% have tires that are 25% below optimal pressure meaning 54 million cars are 10psi below the optimal level [1]. c) For every 1psi drop in pressure it reduces the tires lifespan by 1.78% [1]. d) The average lifetime of a tire is 45,000 miles [1]. e) The average cost of a new tire is around 60$ [1][3]. f) On average Americans drive 13,500 miles every year [2]. g) Fuel efficiency is reduced by 1% for around every 3psi drop below the proper level [1]. h) A gallon of gas costs around $3.65 [4]. i) MPG standards for most vehicles in America range from around 20-35mpg [5]. j) Improperly capped gas caps results in the loss of 147million gallons of gas a year [8]. k) In Oregon there are 7,600 gas station jobs due bans on self-service gas pumping [7] l) If we adjust Oregon's jobs due to illegal self-service on gas pumping to reflect the USA as a whole then making it illegal to pump your own gas would create almost 600,000 new jobs. m) When the math is done it finds that 4billion dollars a year is wasted on extra tire purchases due to the increase in wear and tear of improperly inflated tires n) When the math is done it finds that 6 billion is wasted due to decreases in fuel economy from improperly inflated tires. o) When the math is done it finds that improperly capped gas caps wastes 600million dollars a year. p) If you include the fact that gas hurts human health and the environment you find that for each dollar of gas pumped it creates 2-3 dollars in extra health/environmental costs.[9][10] q) This means that the total money saved would by over 17billion dollars a year. R) When you subtract the cost of hiring the gas attendants (assuming they are paid 20,000 dollars yearly) it results in a net of 5 billion dollars saved each year [1] http://www.nhtsa.gov... [2] http://www.fhwa.dot.gov... [3] http://www.costhelper.com... [4] http://www.eia.gov... [5] http://www.bts.gov... [6] http://www.dol.gov... [7] http://www.seattlepi.com... [8] http://www.getrichslowly.org... [9] http://nuclearfissionary.com... [10] http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org...