California cities ban new gas stations in battle to combat climate change

[IsailedawayfromFR]

This will really help high gas prices

Without realizing they were starting a movement in green energy policy, leaders of a small Sonoma County 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 followed suit, and now, leaders in California's most car-centric metropolis are hoping to bring the climate-conscious policy to Southern California.

It opens a new front in California's efforts to reduce carbon emissions and already is generating opposition from the fuel industry, which argues consumers would suffer.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/california-cities-ban-gas-stations-120054007.html

[Kamaji]

[PeteS in CA]

1. Does Grace Toohey know that Petaluma and LA are 500 miles apart, with different, well, pretty much everything? How is all her blah-blah-blah about the Land of LA relevant to petalume and Sonoma County?

2. This is interesting, "Since Petaluma's decision, four other cities in the Bay Area have followed suit ..." but if you want to learn who those other four cities are, you have to wade through the blah-blah-blah about the Land of LA before finding the cities are Rohnert Park, Sebastopol, American Canyon and Calistoga. If those aren't household names, well a clue might be that the combined population of the 5 cities is just ~139K, while the SF Bay Area population is in the 3M-6M range (I'm being lazy).