LANCASTER, Pa. - Full-service gasoline stations have been vanishing at gasoline stations across the country since the 1970s, but one Pennsylvania lawmaker wants to make retailers once again offer the service, the Intelligencer Journal reports.

John??s Gulf in Lancaster is one of the few remaining gasoline stations with full service, which has provided the benefit since 1924. Fifth-generation owner Mary Kirchner Byerly said customers enjoy the service. "We have a lot of great people coming in here who want that service when it??s cold outside in the winter and hot like this in the summer," said Kirchner Byerly. "This is history right here."

Now state Rep. Tom Creighton would like other retailers to offer the same type of service. His bill would make gasoline stations with at least six pumps to operate one as full service under state law.

"It is increasingly difficult for individuals who are elderly or disabled to find a full-service gas station," said Creighton, who added that response to the bill has been positive. He plans to introduce the measure this week.

However, not everyone??s on board with such a change. "We would not necessarily be in favor of that because a lot of stations that aren??t full-service, especially convenience stores, don??t have the manpower available to man a pump," said Ross DiBono, director of the Pennsylvania Gasoline Retailers Association & Allied Trades. "If you did have to hire someone, God knows what they would have to charge for full service. ?? [Customers will] be paying $5 or $6 for a gallon of gasoline."

The measure would let retailers charge more for full-service gasoline. Gas stations not complying with the law could receive a fine of up to $500 for each week of non-compliance.

DiBono said a state law is not needed to have service station attendants help those who need assistance pumping gas. "If somebody is handicapped, if they just pull up to the front and blow the horn to indicate they can??t pump gas, someone would be happy to come over and put the gasoline in for them," he said.

That??s a sentiment echoed by Mike Cortez, a Sheetz spokesman. Sheetz in-store employees receive training in helping drivers who need assistance in filling up.

"What it allows us to do is provide the assistance to those who need it without increasing the cost to everybody by providing an additional person out at the pumps," he said. "This proposal would run the risk of increasing the cost of gas for everybody without significantly impacting the service people can get already."

Only Oregon and New Jersey have laws requiring full service gasoline stations.