Ban new gas stations? The idea caught on in California

“They weren’t aware of it. note it Los Angeles Times, but elected officials from a small town in Sonoma County [au nord de San Francisco] seem to have started a movement in energy transition policies when they questioned the authorization procedure for a new gas station, ultimately blocking this project and the construction of any other station in the future.

“We did not know that we were the first in the world to ban gas stations”, says D’Lynda Fischer, a Petaluma municipal official who spearheaded the initiative last year. Since then, four other cities in the San Francisco area have imitated this pioneering town of 60,000 inhabitants. Now he’s a Los Angeles city councilman, “California’s most travel-focused metropolis