OT; California Cities Ban New Gas Stations, Even As Price Tops $6 Per Gallon
Papi_Chulo
Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
Tuesday, July 12, 2022 4:51 PM
"California Cities Ban New Gas Stations, Even As Price Tops $6 Per Gallon"
In an attempt to battle climate change, some California cities are rejecting the construction of new gas stations.
Officials of a Sonoma County city north of San Francisco were the first in the game when they stopped the development of a gas station there last year. “We didn’t know what we were doing, actually,” Petaluma Councilwoman D’Lynda Fischer told Yahoo News. “We didn’t know we were the first in the world when we banned gas stations.”
Since that decision, four other cities in the Bay Area have done the same.
The average price per gallon in California is now $6.06, according to AAA. In one county, the price is $7.11.
The movement is now making its way to Los Angeles, with 13 million residents in the city and surrounding area. The city has already been slow to grant new stations, approving one to two new stations per year from 2016 to 2021, excluding 2017, Yahoo reported.
L.A. Councilmember Paul Koretz (D) has put forward a proposal to stop new stations there. “We are ending oil drilling in Los Angeles. We are moving to all-electric new construction. And we are building toward fossil fuel free transportation. Our great and influential city, which grew up around the automobile, is the perfect place to figure out how to move off the gas-powered car,” he said.
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