Lazy way to pump gas

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Are you serious Apathy? Pumps have an auto shutoff feature.

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Can't you override these by holding in the handle? The auto shutoff I'm familiar with, the auto latch pops.

With the gas cap jammed in, won't the auto shutoff not work?

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No. None of these that I've ever seen have had the auto-shutoff associated at all with the latch thing. Every time when my gas gets done I have to undo the auto latch and then remove the pump. It's all done with the flow of the gas somehow. Presumably when the pressure increases by x against the flow, then it triggers it to stop. (Increase in pressure is created by the gasoline level getting high enough to reach the end of the nozzle.)