The city has banned the construction of new gas stations

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The City Council of the city of Petaluma, California, unanimously approved a resolution banning the construction of new gas stations. The city with a population of 60 thousand people already has on its area of ​​15 square meters. miles 16 gas stations.

In fact, this means that townspeople can find a gas station after driving along city streets for no more than five minutes. The resolution also bans the addition of new pump racks to existing gas stations and makes it easier to install electric charging stations for electric vehicles, and subsequently hydrogen refueling stations for fuel cell engines. The city administration has set itself an ambitious goal: to achieve “carbon neutrality” in the city by 2030, that is, to virtually completely stop the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

The Petaluma City Council decision is “a really important sign of the coming change, when the city administration, in the absence of effective enough action at the federal and state level, is able to take the right steps towards the transition from a carbon economy to a clean energy economy,” according to a statement from the non-profit organization Stand.earth …

Published in the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” No. 0 dated November 30 -0001

Newspaper headline:
Gasoline is no longer needed?