City council members will cap its 21,000 residents to just six stations – One legislator who voted said they felt an ‘obligation’ to fight global warming
‘We have an obligation to take every step possible to address the changes to our climate that are ravaging our planet and directly impacting the health, well-being and livelihoods of the constituents we represent in Louisville,’ council member Maxine Most said. … The suburb, around 20 miles outside of Denver, currently has five gas stations, and although a sixth was recently approved for development, the resolution could make that facility its last.
‘We should be taking whatever incremental steps to not create additional fossil fuel infrastructure,’ said the councilmember, who also serves on the city’s Economic Vitality Committee. Most added: “I understand that there are negative consequences for certain parties when we make these sorts of decisions. But I personally believe we are well past the point where we have that luxury. If we’re really committed to sustainability and we really recognize there’s a climate crisis, that means every time we have the choice to do something about it, we need to do something about it.”
By: Admin – Climate Depot
By WILL POTTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Dem-led Colorado city BANS new gas stations in bid to tackle climate change: Now limited to six in town of 21,000 people
- Louisville, Colorado has voted to ban gas stations to fight climate change
- City council members will cap its 21,000 residents to just six stations
- One legislator who voted said they felt an ‘obligation’ to fight global warming
The blue-run city of Louisville, Colorado will ban all new gas stations as local lawmakers say they feel an ‘obligation’ to fight climate change.
City councilors in the town of 21,000 approved a proposal Tuesday evening to cap the number of gas stations for their constituents to just six.
A seventh station would only be permitted if a large retailer swoops in, but the limitation was praised by a Louisville legislator who said the move was necessary to combat global warming.
‘We have an obligation to take every step possible to address the changes to our climate that are ravaging our planet and directly impacting the health, well-being and livelihoods of the constituents we represent in Louisville,’ council member Maxine Most told Fox News.
The proposal includes a spate of climate-oriented provisions intended to reduce Louisville’s emissions.
Alongside limiting gas stations in the town, new or modified stations will also be required to install at least two charging ports for electric vehicles.
The suburb, around 20 miles outside of Denver, currently has five gas stations, and although a sixth was recently approved for development, the resolution could make that facility its last.
The plans also include a ban on all gas stations within 1,000 feet of existing stations, and special use approvals for existing gas stations will be needed if any station is closed for a year.
Speaking before the vote, councilwoman Most admitted that the move wouldn’t stop climate change, but said the small community should continue with the plan anyway.
‘We should be taking whatever incremental steps to not create additional fossil fuel infrastructure,’ said the councilmember, who also serves on the city’s Economic Vitality Committee.
Louisville’s green policies are intended to meet several of its climate change fighting goals, including meeting the entire city’s municipal electricity needs with carbon-free sources by 2025.
The community has also set goals of reducing its greenhouse gas emission levels in the coming years, and generating 75 percent of its residential, commercial and industrial needs with carbon-free sources by 2030.
According to the recently approved policy, the law’s authors felt a push to introduce electric cars will entice motorists to make the switch away from gas.
‘Gasoline station bans may also be seen as promoting the use of Electric Vehicles (EVs), thus, reducing vehicle emissions and encouraging low-carbon and cleaner energy options for transportation,’ it says.
‘The proposal for a cap but not a full ban on new gasoline and automobile service stations is in recognition that there will continue to be some demand for gasoline and automobile service stations as more EVs enter the market and gasoline vehicles are transitioned out of the market over time.’
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The blue-run city of Louisville, Colorado will ban all new gas stations as local lawmakers say they feel an ‘obligation’ to fight climate change.
City councilors in the town of 21,000 approved a proposal Tuesday evening to cap the number of gas stations for their constituents to just six.
A seventh station would only be permitted if a large retailer swoops in, but the limitation was praised by a Louisville legislator who said the move was necessary to combat global warming.
‘We have an obligation to take every step possible to address the changes to our climate that are ravaging our planet and directly impacting the health, well-being and livelihoods of the constituents we represent in Louisville,’ council member Maxine Most told Fox News.
The proposal includes a spate of climate-oriented provisions intended to reduce Louisville’s emissions.
Alongside limiting gas stations in the town, new or modified stations will also be required to install at least two charging ports for electric vehicles.
The suburb, around 20 miles outside of Denver, currently has five gas stations, and although a sixth was recently approved for development, the resolution could make that facility its last.
The plans also include a ban on all gas stations within 1,000 feet of existing stations, and special use approvals for existing gas stations will be needed if any station is closed for a year.
Speaking before the vote, councilwoman Most admitted that the move wouldn’t stop climate change, but said the small community should continue with the plan anyway.
‘We should be taking whatever incremental steps to not create additional fossil fuel infrastructure,’ said the councilmember, who also serves on the city’s Economic Vitality Committee.
Louisville’s green policies are intended to meet several of its climate change fighting goals, including meeting the entire city’s municipal electricity needs with carbon-free sources by 2025.
The community has also set goals of reducing its greenhouse gas emission levels in the coming years, and generating 75 percent of its residential, commercial and industrial needs with carbon-free sources by 2030.
According to the recently approved policy, the law’s authors felt a push to introduce electric cars will entice motorists to make the switch away from gas.
‘Gasoline station bans may also be seen as promoting the use of Electric Vehicles (EVs), thus, reducing vehicle emissions and encouraging low-carbon and cleaner energy options for transportation,’ it says.
‘The proposal for a cap but not a full ban on new gasoline and automobile service stations is in recognition that there will continue to be some demand for gasoline and automobile service stations as more EVs enter the market and gasoline vehicles are transitioned out of the market over time.’
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Just how is limiting the number of gas stations supposed to reduce the consumption of auto fuel? Gas station are a consequence of cars, not a cause. Fewer stations simply means more crowding at those that remain, to their benefit.
My nearest town has a population of about 3000, and has 8 gas stations in the town limits. That’s about 375 people per gas station, and all of them are always fairly busy.
This city has 21,000 and 6 stations, so 3500 per station. What must the lines already be like?
Or maybe most people get their gas elsewhere already, so this will do nothing.
Good news for existing stations as future competition has now been limited. For consumers, not so much. Good work, central planners!
This kind of “virtue signaling” only serves to unveil the intelligence level of the folks who voted this Maxine Most into their position. But, then it is Colorado. Common sense and logic are obviously in short supply in the blue areas of this nation. And it shows by this kind of phony dogoodery.
To date, there have been NO scientific evidence that definitively lays the ups and downs of planetary temperatures upon man-caused sources. This move by the Louisville city council should encourage almost everyone with any intelligence at all to leave town. Similar to the exodus from CA. Let them govern a ghost town.
Here’s the thing about bans – all they do is restrict businesses and drive consumers to look elsewhere for what they want (or need). Imagine a town banning new fast food restaurants in the name of tackling obesity. People will simply travel to get to the restaurants they want to eat at. Worse yet, if a new fast food joint is built or an existing one modified, it must offer two low calorie vegetarian meals on its menu (which would be far less expensive to a restaurant than a charging station to a gas station, but still – it is gov’t over-reach and then some).
This was very evident during Covid lockdowns. Here in Maryland if a county (or Baltimore city) shut down eat-in restaurants, people traveled to neighboring areas to eat. And living in Maryland, there are things I can’t buy here, like raw milk and fireworks. Well, I am 15 miles from the PA border and I get those things there. All those bans do is cut out businesses here in Maryland which they lose to neighboring states.
This is also not unlike “dry” counties and dry towns….places where alcohol still cannot be sold. Damascus, Maryland, is a dry town. It has a gas station and one fast food restaurant, but is otherwise frozen in time (though its residents might be perfectly happy that way). No one wants to open a sit down eatery in a place where they can’t serve booze. Tons of traffic pass thru the main drag (lots of potential customers) as well.
Laws do have consequences, some wanted and others (not fully thought thru) unwanted. This tiny Colorado town might not just be (in their fantasies, at least) tackling climate change, but also tackling growth and expansion.
“… frozen in time (though its residents might be perfectly happy that way).” Ask those residents how many of their children choose to remain to live and work in their town. “Perfectly happy” as the world moves on around them … a sentence to lingering death.
Ban gas stations?
I propose that the US ban leftists before they ruin our country any more than they already have. Deport all of them to Cuba, where they will finally be happy, assuming it is possible for a leftist to be happy, unless Trump is in prison, for a crime that exceeds all other crimes: The crime of being Donald Trump. Trump in prison might make a leftist happy. Maybe.
An alternative is to force all US leftists to move to California, and then we return California to Mexico, and demand our $15 million back, with interest. So Mexico gets Nancy “nasty” Pelosi, Paul “the hammered” Pelosi and Governor Gruesome.
Maybe that cold nation to our North, Cubanada, will deport Justin TrueDope to Cuba where he belongs? Although I think Cubanada is a lost cause … and the US is not far behind.
There is always time for a conservative like me to hope that the future will be better … even as those smarmy leftists refuse to stop warning us about the coming climate crisis, like trained parrots.
If you are a leftist, the future is always bleak and the nation you live in is no good. Leftists are perpetually unhappy people, except when drunk. That’s why they ruin everything they touch. They should never be allowed to touch electric grids.
“They should never be allowed to touch electric grids.”
However, they should be allowed to insert their fingers into electrical sockets.
Maybe some larger cities like Denver or Boulder will follow along with this idea. Or maybe it will inspire California to do the same. Would be interesting to see the fallout of this on a large scale.
The impact of this will most likely only result in more gas stations just outside town.
A not so novel cargo cult. An ancient ethical religion. Spread the Green blight.
NIMBY environmentalism.
NIMBY works well for those that already have, not so well for those needing to advance. It takes a long time to notice the hidden negative effects. And meanwhile, global leadership moves East and South. Learn Mandarin.
I’m sure that owners of the existing gas stations fought this tooth and nail. The markets are free from governmental control and free markets are alive and well in the U.S.
Never mind
It sounds rather anti-competitive to me. The value of the six existing gasoline stations will probably go up now as they are guaranteed not to have any additional competition. With lack of competition the voters in Louisville will pay for it through higher gasoline prices. It almost sounds like there was a pay-off somewhere to pass a law barring any competitors from moving into town.
This ban will be a real boon to the six gas stations allowed to continue…the owners are cheering all the way to the bank.
I think this is a grand idea but I would go one step further and remove all gas stations from this worthless community. They don’t deserve gasoline. All trucks, cars, cycles, trains, planes, generators and anything that burns fuel needs to be removed.
What if Louisville is just the start. What if Boulder, Niwot, Superior, Longmont and a few of the other close in communities do the same thing. How far are climate progressives willing to drive to fill up their gas tanks? And if its too far, how much gasoline is going to be wasted driving outside Boulder County?
And how much gasoline is going to be wasted by cars waiting in line at the few remaining stations still operating in Louisville just so they can fill up? This whole idea is poorly thought out.
Just one month ago, an article on WUWT was titled: “Are Electric Vehicles About To Sweep The Country?”
My comment was: “Don’t worry, the coming ban on gas stations will solve the EV dilemma.”
I hate to say I told you so, but this is the next logical step in the watermelon’s agenda.
This means that car owners living in Loonyville, Colorado will have to drive out of town to fill up their tanks, leading to more CO2 emissions. Brilliant, Sherlock!