if it is illegal to drink and drive, why do they sell alcohal at gas stations?
399510
Beats me, it's illegal in the UK :)\n\n<edit>\nSelling alcohol in Gas Stations I mean\n</edit>
335810
A police officer has the legal right to breathalyze anyone he or she suspects of having used alcohol. A passenger, not driver - passenger, in a car can be charged with public intoxication if they are over the legal blood alcohol limit. Unfortunately, there are police officers in Texas who are now going INSIDE bars to breathalyze people and giving public intoxication tickets, even if they did not drive to the bar, and are not driving home. Fortunately, the vast majority of cops will not give a ticket someone riding in a car drunk, if the driver is sober. Usually this will only happen if the intoxicated person is belligerent or aggressive, and disrupting the safety and process of the traffic stop.\nAlso, if the passenger is underage, ANY trace of alcohol will result in at least a ticket for minor consumption. If under 18 years of age, each state has different laws concerning minors.
910192
It's not the reaction times -- it's the crime itself you're punished for.\n\nDriving while intoxicated is a special case because there are special laws regulating alcholol and other intoxicant. But while it's easy to test for drug/alcohol use in an objective blood test, it's almost impossible to test for emotional or situational impairments.\n\nSo, driving while intoxicated can be punished by itself, separately, because there can be objective standards. But anything else can only be punished based on the objective results.
490838
I can answer that question,,,,,people who work at drive thru beer barns function under the influence of smelly exhaust!!!!!!!!!1 they dont need drugs to get high! Most drive thru workers are hard working people that are there to serve the people who are too lazy to get out of their cars and walk in a store to get their goods,,,,they take abuse such as loud car horns, crabby rushed customers , and beer hoots from overserved alchoholics, If they dont use drugs to unwind, they should
251353
Why do you all say no because it's illegal? Doesn't any of you do anything that is not legal, such as smoking weed and driving after having a few drinks? You hypocrites!
486764
"The Garden State is one of two states where it's illegal to fill 'er up yourself. Only gas station owners or employees can pump gas in New Jersey and Oregon -- "the only two states atavistic, sadistic, and masochistic enough to still require thousands of 'professionals' to waste time, money, and inconvenience customers," according to one columnist. \nThe ban on self-service gas stations is a highly combustible issue and makes for some heated debates. New Jersey passed the law making it illegal to pump your own gas in 1949. At the time, legislators felt it was too dangerous to have untrained people dispensing such a flammable liquid. \n\nThat may have been sensible at the time, but pumping gas is much safer today, and some motorists feel the ban is outdated and needs to go. Opponents of the law argue that removing it would lower the cost of gas and make refueling much quicker and more convenient. Proponents of the ban argue that it creates jobs and customers like full service. \n\nWhatever your position on the matter, next time you're in Jersey and need to refuel, take the opportunity to relax in the comfort of your car while the gas station attendant does the dirty work."
652447
It's over twice the legal limit for driving in most states.\n\nI think it corresponds to about 9 drinks in a short period of time for an average-sized male, so that seems rather low to be arrested for public intoxication.
10117
Because we are not taught from a young age to respect alchohol. If we treated it more like Europeans it would not be considered taboo. Thats why so many teenagers have to drink till they get sick and act like twits. Also those stupid ass ads that connect drinking beer with being sexy. You aint sexy when you get drunk. \n\nBackwards is alcohol thinking in America.
426884
Eh, I enjoyed the occasional drink when I was under 21 too.  Why should you be allowed to join the military, but not have a drink the night before you ship out?  It should really be up to parents to enforce the rules anyway, why do we need the government so into our lives for everything anyway?  Anyway, around my area, they send in underage kids who buy smokes or alcohol, and then arrest the clerk and charge them and the business with selling to minors.  So in Ohio, something is occasionally done.
178590
Not all alcohol is legal.  Absinthe and moonshine are both still illegal due to the lethality.  Some it might be due to taxes, but in reality I think it has more to do with the majority of us who vote don't want it legal.
517504
There are laws against mixing alcohol and driving automobiles, it is something that is generally frowned upon.  Actually they do use some Alcohol Mixed Fuel for racing it is used for speed and not for economy in fact it probably burns so hot and fast that it would get very poor mileage, but the question was worth putting out there as we can produce almost any amount of alcohol needed as a replenish-able fuel.
73044
From a purely mathematical perspective, you're right. But of course this would eliminate using the proper logic that the lack of alcohol intake makes for fewer impaired drivers that would be unable to effectively avoid an accident.\n\nEither way, don't drink and drive... you might spill your drink.
34706
I think that it's absolutely pointless that it's illegal.  Prohibition didn't stop people from drinking alcohol, it only made it more dangerous for all of the people who were already drinkers.  The only reason I see for continuing to keep marijuana illegal is to supply more people with jobs in law enforcement and in the penal system.
264942
Because that's what they're paid to do...\nI mean come on... would you pay a gas man to come into your house and just read a book!?!
118559
becuase the government makes more money keeping them illegal. :)
827089
When it can be properly taxed. Right now there is no good way of taxing something you can grow rather easily.\n\nThis is honestly the 1 reason why it is illegal. Currently more $ is made with arrests & fines. If it was taxed properly as all sold goods are, more would be made that way.\n\nWhile some replies will look at this as insane, they would treat the question "When will they legalize alcohol" during prohibition.
312749
Because the government cant make money off it. Pot and alcohol basically do the same thing(impair your mental processing). Pot is easy to get/grow so there isn't alot of money to be made by Washington, alcohol however is a little harder and expensive to make (other than moonshine) so the government can make hundreds of millions of dollars from alcohol taxes.