Posted on 03/21/2023 2:04:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A Colorado city is considering a resolution that would ban new gas stations and automobile service stations to combat climate change.
The proposed ordinance before the city council restricts the number of gas stations and service stations for Louisville, Colorado, to six, with a seventh being permitted only if it’s part of a large retail center.
“We have an obligation to take every step possible to address the changes to our climate that are ravaging our planet and directly impacting the health, well-being and livelihoods of the constituents we represent in Louisville,” Councilmember Maxine Most told Fox News.
The city council document including the ordinance defines automobile service stations as a business “engaged in the sale of motor fuels and in supplying goods and services generally required in the operation and maintenance of automotive vehicles and the fulfilling of motorists’ needs.” It adds that “major automotive repairs, painting, body and fender work are prohibited.”
New gas stations and service stations will also be required to have at least two charging stations for electric vehicles and be 1,000 feet away from existing stations unless it’s part of a large retail center, according to the ordinance.
Louisville, a Denver suburb with about 21,000 residents, currently has five gas stations with a sixth recently approved for construction. …
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Why just new ones?
Every service station in the city should close for a week just to give them a taste of a world without gasoline.
“Ravaging”
What “ravaging?”
Where — exactly — has this “ravaging” taken place?
(Please supply some citations.)
In a just world, the climate change loonies would be in the asylums locked up!
Let’s make it a year!
Wouldn’t it be funny existing gas stations pumps had mechanical problems all at the same time?
Force them to use electric snow plows and cop cars.
Make it permanent, once the existing gas in the storage tanks has either been sold or pumped out into fuel trucks and taken away.
Californicated.
It’d not surprise me if the current gas stations would wholly support this.
It’s hot in summer.
https://www.livescience.com/24592-summer.html
It’s cold in winter.
https://www.wbrc.com/2023/03/18/first-alert-cold-last-weekend-winter/
True, they would have an incentive for wanting to eliminate any potential rivals.
Exactly. They probably chipped in for the lobbying effort!
How about they give the folks one month off from paying taxes that go to these insane politicians who then use them to hurt us royally?
Will backyard mechanics need to have a charging station too?
Louisville, between Boulder and Denver. Some lunacy has rubbed off.
Exactly. This is crony socialism.
Don’t electric cars ever have to be serviced?
“Ravaging our planet” eh? Maxine Most is Mostly full of it.
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