I can vouch heartily for that very fact. When we drive to New York, we make sure we gas up in NJ first. Or if we have to buy gas in NY, we only buy enough to get us across the bridge.
Edited to add this excerpt from the NYTimes:
Chris Christie proposed self-serve gas during his gubernatorial campaign in 2009, but dropped the proposal because the negative response from the public was so ferocious. At a town hall-style meeting in 2016, he said that it was a gender issue, citing a poll that indicated that 78 percent of women in the state were only too happy to stay in their cars.
Ashley Koning, the director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers University, said in an interview that the idea of pumping one’s own gas had never been broadly favorable in New Jersey.
“It’s kind of one of the third rails of state politics,” she said, noting that women and older people in particular enjoyed the service.