[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

As so by incremental little steps we are headed down this path:

(yes it's the left coast which tends to be wonkier than the rest of us...at first...)

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/us/in...?ocid=msedgntp

Inside the first town in America to ban gas stations
Josh Marcus 8 hrs ago
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Walking down Washington Street, one of the main thoroughfares in the city of Petaluma, about 40 miles north of San Francisco, you could be almost anywhere in California. There are all the usual fast food chains, a smattering of Mexican restaurants, a few incongruous palm trees, and wide suburban streets.

If you zoom out from Washington Street, there’s also the fact that, like everywhere else in America, the climate crisis is rapidly changing Petaluma. The city is facing a water emergency, part of California’s fourth drought in the last 20 years. In the last seven years, its home of Sonoma County has experienced five of the 13 most destructive wildfires in state history.

Unlike most places in California, however, Petaluma has taken an unprecedented, if modest, step to combatting this reality: last March, it became the first city in the US to ban construction of new gas stations and pumps.