I seriously doubt that would ever happen in NJ.
Summer is our busy season and $15 an hour would hurt a lot of businesses.
I don't believe that for a second. We have a couple of Seneca Indian reservations in my area. On rare occasion, I'll get gas there - it's cheaper. I've met a couple people who work there - and they do pay in the neighborhood of $15, or more, per hour for people to pump gas. Let's go with a low estimate of 300 gallons pumped per hour. To increase someone's pay from $9/hr to $15/hr, that six dollars would be spread over that 300 gallons. That works out to a 2 cent per gallon increase. And, not just coincidentally, at the closest reservation gas station, they have self-service and full-service. The full-service is.... 2 cents more per gallon. What amazes me though is the line of 10 cars waiting for self-service, while there's never more than 1 or 2 for the full service. I'd go there a lot more often, but they don't have non-ethanol gas.
Another reason to burn wood at 4am (just thought of this yesterday, because it looks like the neighbors down the road are doing this): you have an outdoor boiler, and have piped your swimming pool water through the boiler to heat your pool. One of my friends used to do this - swimming in 95 degree pool water when it was below freezing outside.
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