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
If its that bad, why not ban such fuels outright? Or are there benefits to using such fuels? Why not list the benefits along with assumed negatives? Or do they not want people to get a balanced perspective?
The Chinese can’t belief their eyes watching the decline of the West while their own efforts were already on track to surpass competitors.
How were these stickers made, how were they transferred to these gas stations I wonder?
They need an asterisk, with the associated reminder that the yellow sticker is made without any oil based products, that it is not harmful to society or the environment, and the sticker itself was delivered to by volunteers that walked to each site in grass/bark sandals.
Yep, just about as useful as California prop. 65 warnings, which are on everything from coffee to fishing lures.
Why don’t they simply ban hydrocarbon-fuelled cars and trucks, and see how many people decide to leave due to lack of food?
Official graffiti as opposed to their formative years
You’ve been ‘Grubbered’
If you cannot determine how much it is contributing to “climate change”, then you don’t have any scientific data to support claiming fossil fuels make ANY contribution to the fiction of climate change.
Maybe the providers of gasoline should no longer sale their products in the city limits.
If ethanol is a problem then why are we forcing gasoline companies to add it to their gasoline?
About 40% of the corn crop is used to make ethanol https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/ethanol-market-is-disturbing-as-hell-to-american-farmers-and-now-there-s-covid-19. That drives up the price of corn for food.
I wonder how many total tons of CO2 went into the big dig project?
I quit smoking before they started to put warnings on cigarettes, or maybe there was small print stuff I missed remembering, but certainly not those gross pictures we see today on individual cigarette packages. Anecdotal, I know, but there still seems to be a fairly good crop of young new smokers, gross pictures and all the warnings.
I can’t imagine the same type of program being any more effective at the gas pumps. People may choose to smoke but a vehicle, in spite of the rhetoric, is for a great many people a necessity. We seem to be so far down the road of hyping our social and political ideal(s) that all the signage, if ever really effective, is now just white noise. We’re stacking white noise and proclaiming ideological successes.
Next will be yellow stars sewn onto the sleeves of “climate change deniers.” (sic)
It’s coming.
Printed on vinyl or plasticized cellulose using petroleum and coal-based inks and pigments, weatherized with UV-resistant “forever” plastic compounds, and fastened with petroleum-based adhesives. Enforcement and compliance financed and powered by road, fuel, and electrical power generation taxes and fees. Pollution preventative value 0, health value 0, virtue signaling value quite small — how often does any one really read the existing warnings and notices on gas pumps.
Wherever there’s a university/college, the chances greatly improve that there will be some climate alarmist propaganda to be found in one form or another. Except if a proper survey were done of staff and students, chances are just as good that only a tiny minority is actually living the type of lifestyle supposedly designed to fight climate change. Sort of like David Suzuki, Al Gore, Leonard DiCaprio
, etc. ; i.e., Don’t Do As I Do, Just Do As I Say.
so about a month and hopefully someone will mimic the stickers with something pithy and honest and cover the originals over;-)
Should be placing those stickers on practically everything, then. Every product which involves fossil fuels in manufacturing or transport, every thermostat in every office and household, etc. Put them everywhere so people understand the absurdity.
Yes, like the flights of MIT faculty, students, and staff, and at the marinas and campus power plant and on all city trucks. Let’s see the fuel bills and accounting statements for the city. They are still mad that the federal tax reform limited deductions for their second homes on Cape Cod.
Showmanship has never gone well in that state. I still get a good laugh thinking of Michael Dukakis riding in that tank and looking like Alfred E. Neuman.
That sticker should be more effective than a pencil neck geek holding a sign…
Maybe the city of Cambridge MA itself should have a warning sticker: “Warning, you are entering cray cray cuckoo climate land”. Abandon all logic, ye who enter”.
How about warning stickers on Sam Adams beer?
Carry a Sharpie, wear your mask.
I’m disappointed my favorite Mexican restaurants were left out…along with the retried bean section at the supermarkts….. and the drive up window at Taco Time… or for that matter any fast food chain gas factory. Oh wait! What about those sodas and the beer?