Posted on 02/16/2024 7:12:37 PM PST by cba123
Sacramento, capital city of the EV-loving Golden State, is the latest city proposing to ban new gas stations or upgrading existing stations, unless of course you’re adding electric vehicle charging.
The government recently issued a 2040 Sacramento General Plan, first reported by OPIS, which calls for “future-ready” gas stations. The plan states that the “city shall prohibit the establishment of new gas stations or the expansion of new fossil fuel infrastructure at existing gas stations unless the project proponent provides 50kW or greater direct current fast charger (DCFC) electric-vehicle charging stations on site at a ratio of at least one new charging station per one new gas fuel nozzle.”
The plan also calls for setting up requirements for EV charging infrastructure in new and expanded gas stations citywide...
(Excerpt) Read more at electrek.co ...
Oh good, it’s California. They sure are slow learners out there.
Gas stations building permits will be like liquor licenses.
And Mexico can annex them for all I care.
In fact, no more deliveries of any kind at all.
Oh yeah . . . require all vehicles entering the USA from Mexico, to be EV.
Will bring a whole new game to “grand theft auto.”
Well... Volvo and Mercedes do have -e tractors... They just suck...
Then, the EVers will get POed so they'll lay it out where the ICE get blocked, for sure. Can't have one group zipping thru in 5 minutes or less.
I Googled the cost of building the average gas station, it’s 1.1 million, which allows $300,000 for the land. Each charging station costs between $500 and $150,000. There weren’t numbers for the gas pumps and the number of electrical chargers, but my guess is the 150k is a commercial unit like you’d need at a major charging station. Around here the average gas station has twelve pumps, each with multiple handles for diesel, gas, and “marine” gas. Don’t know if that would equal three chargers, one for each handle. But adding twelve charging stations at just, say, 75k would be a massive increase in expense. The reason there are fewer chargers being constructed is THEY DON’T PAY FOR THEMSELVES.
The other problem is capacity. If you have a charging business it has a power carry limit, say, X. Usually, three cars can charge at max speed at any one time. Add a fourth car and all four will charge slower as they will exceed the carry limit. Add twelve cars and they will slow the charge to the point where you’d need a motel in the same lot so people can spend the night.
Personally I don’t give a damn what they do in SACRASHITO, every time I have to go down south I always fill up in Red Bluff or Willows then drive straight through.
Who is crazy enough to get off the freeway in that craphole of a city!
Hopefully, everyone but the owners of EV’s will move out of the place.
That’s backing into government mandated Chinese style Communism as usual.
First suggestions backed by media propaganda, then cutdowns of the other way, and then prison terms for those who do not conform to mandatory forced behavior.
People on FR who have said “I refuse. I won’t be buying an EV.” Until gas lines are 50 minutes long and stations are 75 miles apart and gas cars cost twice as much with government fees added. And no dealers are allowed to sell a gas car including online.
I didn’t want the light bulbs to replace regular incandescent ones until the government forced them off the shelves. Too bad for me.
Most of us notice the rooms are dimmer now. Or get so used to it now it’s like the restricted flow fawcetts and wimpy flush toilets. And street lights only light straight down in a narrow circle, not a broad lighted area of streets or sidewalks. And brake lights on vehicles have to add up a dozen or more tiny lights to sort of look like the old lights did.
15. Your statement is shocking to say the least.
I bet BBQ squirrel ain’t that bad. And then there’s the occasional rabbit, or roadkill stew!
I still have a healthy supply of 40/60 watt incandescent bulbs.
this makes the existing gas stations worth a fortune....follow the money....some rat is going to get really rich...
yes.
And you can charge your EV anytime between 6:36AM and 6:38AM.
Please refrain from charging your EV when not in that time period. Thank you.
-The Government
Opportunity for auxilliary gas tank manufactures and installers. Had one on my Ford F250 that held 20 gallons. Took it from a defunct fork lift.
What I read above says one EV charger per “nozzle”. Most modern gas pumps have two sides and three nozzles on each side. Some with two nozzles on each side. So that would mean for every modern gas pump there would have to be 4 to 6 EV chargers installed.
Oh yeah, sounds like something Sacramento would do.
There’s nothing “balanced” about it.
It’s totally commie.
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