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Re:First town in America to ban new gas stations by imtringued on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @10:28AM (#28221395)
I don't understand. There has been a gas shortage and waiting lines since the pandemic. Why would you go and outright ban gas stations? If we want less CO2 emissions we have to raise or introduce CO2 prices.
Re:First town in America to ban new gas stations by moate on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @10:43AM (#28221626)
Just walk me through this: Did the gas stations all catch Covid and die?

What is the correlation between pandemic related gas shortages and a need for more fuel pumps (vs. more of the fuel to be delivered to the pumps because of pandemic related supply chain issues)?

Also, where are these constant waiting lines currently happening? I'm personally in NJ, an extremely densely populated state, and haven't seen anything other than the normal rush hour "4 pumps, 6 cars" type of lines. The larger filling stations (6+ pumps) almost never have more cars than pumps at any time I've driven past.

Re:First town in America to ban new gas stations by bobthepanda on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @01:14PM (#28224289)
I believe they're talking about the Colonial pipeline hack, where there were indeed waiting lines for gas in the South, but that was because of lack of delivery of gas, not lack of gas stations. A gas station is no use if it can't get gas.
Re:First town in America to ban new gas stations by bobthepanda on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @10:33AM (#28221475)
The gas shortage was because of a gas pipeline hack, for which more or less gas stations would not really have had an impact since the stations themselves were empty for lack of gas being transported.
Re:First town in America to ban new gas stations by emodendroket on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @10:30AM (#28221424)
So that more people will switch to electric cars. I have not seen much in the way of lines for gas.
Re:First town in America to ban new gas stations by JohnWhigham on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @10:42AM (#28221618)
This is just another example of how out-of-touch rich CA liberals are with the rest of the world. Allows them to feel morally superior and makes everything in their town more expensive (which they want anyway).