Bright yellow stickers warn drivers burning of gasoline has ‘major consequences on human health and the environment’
Cambridge, Massachusetts, has become the first US city to mandate the placing of stickers on fuel pumps to warn drivers of the resulting dangers posed by the climate crisis.
The final design of the bright yellow stickers, shared with the Guardian, includes text that warns drivers the burning of gasoline, diesel and ethanol has “major consequences on human health and the environment including contributing to climate change”.
The stickers will be placed on all fuel pumps in Cambridge, which is situated near Boston and is home to Harvard University, “fairly soon” once they are received from printers, a city spokesman confirmed.
“The city of Cambridge is working hard with our community to fight climate change,” the spokesman added. “The gas pump stickers will remind drivers to think about climate change and hopefully consider non-polluting options.”
The placement of the stickers follows an ordinance passed by Cambridge in January. The city has a target of slashing planet-heating emissions by 80% and offsetting the remainder by 2050, making it carbon neutral.
HT/Climate Depot
Where is Facebook censorship when you need it?
Seriously, someone ought to post another sticker advising of some pertinent facts such as the absence of major consequences, the amount of global warming to be theoretically avoided if all of Massachusetts stops driving, and the major consequences of not driving.
A more useful warning would be don’t sniff the gasoline while smoking.
Will hamburger places get stickers next?
Dang. I overslept, and it’s april 1 st. 2021….
The easiest and best way for Cambridge MA to reduce CO2 production would be for it to shut down Harvard. Getting rid of the noxious gases emited by its students and faculty would be a win win for the whole country.
Whew! existential crisis averted…now can someone put another log on the fire, turn up the furnace, bump up the thermostat for the radiators
If they ever want to be taken seriously, they’d do this to reduce fuel consumption and traffic, shorten drive times.
Nothing would do more to reduce fuel consumption & traffic than to get people to accelerate faster, pay attention & avoid using brakes. After that, get rid of speed limits & instead have adjustable Target Speeds. And, get rid of unnecessary stop sign.
https://twitter.com/aaronshem/status/1340733306137178113
https://twitter.com/aaronshem/status/1171868670806634496
Fuel economy is best under two conditioins:
1} Very light load, and low RPMs. Like when maintaining speed.
2} Under heavy load, RPMs near 3-4000. Brisk Acceleration This graph shows greatest realized work is done per fuel consumed here. https://x-engineer.org/automotive-engineering/internal-combustion-engines/performance/brake-specific-fuel-consumption-bsfc/
https://twitter.com/aaronshem/status/1199775052109144064
”It’s not commonly understood by people who drive,” Dr. Dougherty said. ”They think that the way to get best fuel economy is to accelerate very gently, but that proves not to be the case. The best thing is to accelerate briskly and shift.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/07/technology/what-s-next-dashboard-miser-teaches-drivers-how-to-save-fuel.html
http://cumulativemodel.blogspot.com/2005/12/save-gas-avoid-brakes.html
http://cumulativemodel.blogspot.com/2005/12/save-gas-avoid-brakes.html
This is a cats paw for what Davos fully intends.
Try paying for gas with your green-vetted credit card, and the till will ask confirmation you have read the warning, with multiple choice. Wrong answer, well your green point rating drops for the amount you just tanked. Then your green digital wallet will be reset and you can tank again!
All of this is between the words of Mark Carney’s Greening the Finance System announced at Jackson Hole last August. They will open a few more Gorey Details at the Jan’21 Davos Special.
So it is pretty clear Harvard is actually running a feasibility study. Someone in there is on board with “science” to back up Davos.
Green Digital Wallets, anybody?
I have a feeling after the great reset one of the things we will be happy about not owning will be a car.
Forgot sarc but I reckon you knew that
What kind of hack newspaper doesn’t allow comments?
Most of them anymore. They didn’t like what people were saying (calling them out on their BS mainly)
You would expect a photo of blackened lungs at the very least.
Harved got Juiced in the late 80s and its been crab ever since. They destroyed Harvard Sq as well.
Is this the same city where MIT and Harvard reside? Places of ‘higher’ learning?
“Too much of what is called ’education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.” T. Sowell
“Intellectuals have many skills which enable them to evade the testing of what they believe” T. Sowell
“The road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees” T. Sowell
These insane Leftist fools forget the incredible: economic, social, technical aeronautical, maritime, textile, transportation, industrial,electronic, pharmaceuticals, distribution, international trade, medical, longevity, agricultural, health, etc., BENEFITS fossil fuels have contributed to the world since the industrial revolution.
Take a minute and look at the all the objects in your room.
EVERY SINGLE ONE of those objects exist because of fossil fuels.
Leftists have completely lost their minds….
Climate crisis, what climate crisis?
Climate changes anyway, whether we use gasoline or not.
This crap from a big college town, oh boy!
Exactly! Change is the default state of the dynamic collection of weather events they inaccurately call the “global climate”. Some areas are undergoing an almost continuous change while others there’s been no significant change for centuries… even possibly millennia.
“The city of Cambridge is working hard with our community to fight climate change,” the spokesman added.”
Apparently, the “city of Cambridge” is separate and distinct from “the community”?
In what way can they possibly be “fighting” to change a state that is part its description? Climate is literally the average of natural changes in a particular location. ow can that be “fought”?
You nailed it Jim.
Are they going to put the same stickers on EV charging stations too? What about windmills and solar panels?
You mean the city knows there are major health consequences and isn’t stopping sales???!!!
There is a bright side; maybe taxpayers will no longer have to subsidize the burning of food (and the inefficient use of water used to grow it).
On the other hand, drivers will fill up elsewhere.
The alarmists sit around thinking of ways to curb fossil fuel use yet they turn a blind eye to the many ways their lifestyle, and sometimes their very life, is made possible by using them.
Oh look, a pretty yellow sticker with text too small to be bothered reading.
How many smokers ignore the warning on their cigarette packets !
This sort of child-minded virtue seeking is so passé and irrelevant. !
If they REALLY want to make a point, why not issue ration cards for petrol.
See how well that goes down with the public. 🙂
I could see myself pulling up to a pump with one of those stickers on it, and while I was filling up, I would write a little note on the sticker with my sharpie marker saying: “This is all a Hoax! Signed: Mother Nature.
Don’t think they’ll need many stickers. A quick check shows the area of Cambridge, Mass. is 6.2 square miles, so roughly 4 miles by 1.5 miles. How many gas stations can there be?
I suspect those using the gas pumps will pay about as much attention to the sticker as smokers do to the Surgeon General’s warning on a pack of cigarettes.
I would like to see a “reverse boycott” of gas stations in Cambridge. Everyone in surrounding cities and towns should drive to Cambridge to buy their gas.