Posted on 03/29/2009 4:46:40 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr
SACRAMENTO – Gil Moore has been steadily selling off his gas stations across the state, unwilling to risk hefty fines or shutdown orders for not replacing old nozzles that release unhealthy toxins with every gallon pumped.
“What a nightmare,” said Moore, who has sold about two dozen stations in the San Diego area and may shed another three amid the additional costs in a tough economy.
Moore is one of many gas station owners in California dreading Wednesday – a long-standing state deadline for retrofitting pumps with technology that's cleaner, but more expensive.
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Presuming that whoever buys these stations keeps them in business, it will be the new owner, and not this person, who passes the costs of compliance down to the consumer.
This is just insane when will it stop I swear to god. they will start putting waste flow meters on homes to tax shit
That, I’m sure, is a very real possibility.
It will stop when Americans start standing up for their rights and get engaged, and not one minute sooner.
Watermelons on the march.
you can’t raise your prices higher than the station down the street.
Unless "down the street" is in another state. I would guess the other station would be subject to the same regulations and would have to raise prices similarly.
They are doing that in Australia now.
The the station selling Reg. for $1.99 across the street from the one selling reg. for $1.89!
AMEN
A business opportunity in California is starting a franchise of bicycle dealerships.
Compounding GovernMental EnvironMental Absurdity!!!
“Unless “down the street” is in another state. I would guess the other station would be subject to the same regulations and would have to raise prices similarly.”
Most conservative states require a tank of gas to get out of.
Only puny sized liberal states can be left behind on a small amount of gasoline/diesel.
They’ve closed so many gas stations around my area that I literally pulled out the phone book recently to find where they still were.
It’s gotten ridiculous.
The higher one wont get much business.
electric bikes
The biggest carbon-credit market in the U.S. is the Chicago Climate Exchange. It’s an experiment in which polluting companies are trying to develop an inexpensive way to comply with limits on greenhouse-gas emissions that they expect the government to impose. The companies promise to cut emissions partly by retooling their facilities, and partly — and often more cheaply — by buying extra credits representing reductions made at landfills or other outside sources.
Is this good or bad for you?
It's gonna be riots in the street.
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