{"id":1904001,"date":"2023-03-23T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/denver-suburb-votes-to-ban-new-gas-stations-from-being-built-in-the-name-of-combatting-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2023-03-23T19:31:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T23:31:44","slug":"denver-suburb-votes-to-ban-new-gas-stations-from-being-built-in-the-name-of-combatting-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/denver-suburb-votes-to-ban-new-gas-stations-from-being-built-in-the-name-of-combatting-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Suburb Votes To Ban New Gas Stations From Being Built In The Name Of Combatting Climate Change"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fdenver-suburb-votes-to-ban-new-gas-stations-from-being-built-in-the-name-of-combatting-climate-change%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=1904001&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-->\n<p><span>In an effort to combat climate change, a Denver district voted to forbid the construction of new gasoline stations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A community legislation that would limit the number of gas stations permitted in the city to six, or just one more gas station, was unanimously approved by the Louisville, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/colorado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado<\/a>, city council, which is located about 30 minutes north of Denver and 20 minutes south of Boulder. However, that fresh gas station and any others constructed beneath the cover must adhere to stringent specifications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.louisvilleco.gov\/home\/showdocument?id=38007&#038;t=638146512206382035\"><span>ordinance<\/span><\/a><span> limits the number of gas or automobile service stations within the city limits to 6, including existing gas stations and other approved by the city council but not yet built. The cap may increased to 7, but only if a large retail center \u2013 like a Sam\u2019s Club or a Costco \u2013 builds a store of 80,000 or more square feet that includes a gas station as an accessory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Considering approvals are also subject to strict restrictions under the law. If a tower licence is hardly issued within 36 months, certifications are no longer valid. A new method that complies with active town standards may be submitted if a gasoline place closes for 12 months. If there are fewer than six gas stations, the city will mainly discuss new plans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Additionally, if the station is located in a financial foundation, the requirement that any new oil facilities be constructed more than 1000 ft away from an existing place may be waived. Electric vehicle charging stations, or at least two of the total quantity of heat pumps at the station, must be built as part of a newly constructed station or an addition to an existing one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One of the justifications for the regulation, according to a report that came with it, was to promote the use of electric vehicles. It read,&#8221; Gasoline station bans may also be seen as promoting the use of Electric Vehicles ( EVs ), thereby reducing vehicle emissions and encouraging low-carbon and cleaner energy options for transportation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, it also acknowledged that heat cars are now required today. According to the article, there will continue to be some need for gas and auto service stations as more EVs enter the market and gasoline vehicles are transitioned out of it over time. Therefore, the proposal for a cap on but not complete ban on new gas and auto-service stations is in recognition of this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">TO GET THE DAILYWIRE + APP, CLICK HERE<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t think that this is gonna change the world, [and] I don\u2019t think any single action this council or community takes is going to fix climate change,\u201d city council member Maxine Most said during the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/louisville.ompnetwork.org\/embed\/sessions\/264794\/03-21-23-city-council-meeting\"><span>comment period<\/span><\/a><span>. \u00a0Tomorrow, we\u2019re not gonna find a solution that\u2019s gonna be like, sweeping, and we\u2019re gonna say, \u2018ok, we\u2019re gonna [decarbonize] the city buildings and that\u2019s gonna solve climate change. The majority of climate impact is gonna come from residential and commercial. But I think it\u2019s a really good idea for us to decarbonize because it sends a signal and it sends a message.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8221; We shouldn&#8217;t make increasing fossil fuel in in 2023. It doesn&#8217;t create feeling, she continued. The reason we are in the current climate crisis is because we have allowed the free market to do as they please.&#8221; Our state has a plan to be on 100 % renewable energy by 2040. It doesn&#8217;t really make sense for us to support investment in technology that we know is at its end.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Denver suburb voted to ban new gas stations from being built in the name of combatting climate change. The city council of Louisville, Colorado, about 30 minutes north of Denver and 20 minutes East of Boulder, voted unanimously to approve a city ordinance that would cap the number of gas stations allowed in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1904002,"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":[7008,6840,5103,4321,22628,13018,7536,4389,15364,4030],"class_list":["post-1904001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-ban","tag-built","tag-change","tag-climate","tag-combatting","tag-denver","tag-gas","tag-stations","tag-suburb","tag-votes"],"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\/1904001","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}