California cities ban new gas stations
in battle to combat climate change
Posted By: NorthernDog, 7/11/2022 4:29:20 PM
Without realizing they were starting a movement in green energy policy, leaders of a small Sonoma Valley city seem to have done just that when they questioned the approval process for a new gas station — eventually halting its development and others in the future. “We didn’t know what we were doing, actually," said Petaluma Councilwoman D'Lynda Fischer, who led the charge last year to prohibit new gas stations in the city of 60,000. "We didn’t know we were the first in the world when we banned gas stations.” Since Petaluma's decision, four other cities in the Bay Area have
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Roughly 98% of motorists need to put gas in their cars. At what point do residents rebel against this nonsense?