{"id":1720174,"date":"2022-11-01T13:48:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T17:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720174"},"modified":"2022-11-01T13:48:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T17:48:50","slug":"independent-gas-station-owners-expect-loss-of-business-with-californias-gas-car-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/independent-gas-station-owners-expect-loss-of-business-with-californias-gas-car-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Gas Station Owners Expect Loss Of Business With California\u2019s Gas Car Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Findependent-gas-station-owners-expect-loss-of-business-with-californias-gas-car-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720174&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California\u2019s<\/a> move to cut out all sales of gas-powered vehicles by 2035 will likely harm independent gas station owners in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Owners of gas stations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2022-10-30\/la-gas-stations-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> The Los Angeles Times that the new rule will accelerate the loss of their businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMost of the independents will be put out of business \u2014 completely out of business,\u201d Charles Khalil, an owner of two gas stations, said. \u201cWe are all going to suffer through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Adnan Ayoub, another independent proprietor, said the zero-emission rule \u201cis not going to be fun for a lot of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhen the gas [cars] go away, I don\u2019t know how many customers I would lose,\u201d Ayoub, who has worked in the industry for over thirty years, said. \u201cI\u2019m kind of on the way out, looking for something else to do.\u201d Ayoub thought about putting electric vehicle charging facilities at his gas station, but when he saw how much it would cost, it didn\u2019t make sense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bob Reed has been operating a gas station since the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIn my life, I will never sell it, because it took me a while to get this,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cMy son and grandson will be the ones who are going to feel it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There are 5,081 small owner gas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.convenience.org\/Media\/Daily\/2022\/Nov\/1\/1-Cali-EV-Mandate-Worries-Independent-Operator_EV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stations<\/a> in the state that also have a convenience store. Loren McDonald, a consultant in the electric car industry, looked at five years of information from the National Association of Convenience Stores, and estimated that almost half of these single owner stations in California would shut down by 2035, with the assumption that the locations will start to shut down at a 3% annual rate and go up to 6% per year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The California Air Resources Board <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.arb.ca.gov\/news\/california-moves-accelerate-100-new-zero-emission-vehicle-sales-2035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">greenlit<\/a> a new regulation in August that would make it so that all new cars and light trucks for sale in the state would be zero-emission by 2035.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cRapidly accelerating the number of ZEVs on our roads and highways will deliver substantial emission and pollution reductions to all Californians, especially for those who live near roadways and suffer from persistent air pollution,\u201d CARB Chair Liane Randolph said at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Although people will still be driving gas-powered vehicles in California for several years to come, the quick transition is reminiscent of other environmental steps the state has taken in order to quickly move to green energy options, all at the expense of the reliability of the state\u2019s power grid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 2019, Democratic Governor of California Gavin Newsom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2019\/10\/12\/governor-gavin-newsom-signs-six-bills-to-move-california-away-from-fossil-fuels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed<\/a> six measures to move the state off of fossil fuels, and the state is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.ca.gov\/news\/2021-03\/california-releases-report-charting-path-100-percent-clean-electricity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attempting<\/a> to have an entirely carbon free electric <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/us-policy\/2022\/09\/21\/california-is-awash-renewable-energy-except-when-its-most-needed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grid<\/a> by 2045.\u00a0In August of 2020, there were rolling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.ca.gov\/news\/2021-01\/caiso-cpuc-cec-issue-final-report-causes-august-2020-rotating-outages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blackouts<\/a> across the state during a heat wave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California\u2019s move to cut out all sales of gas-powered vehicles by 2035 will likely harm independent gas station owners in the state. Owners of gas stations told The Los Angeles Times that the new rule will accelerate the loss of their businesses.\u00a0 \u201cMost of the independents will be put out of business \u2014 completely out &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1720177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}