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> how quickly petrol cars may have to soon worry again about running out of fuel The nice (?horrrible?) thing about petrol is that those stations are environme
by vineyardmike 6y ago
> how quickly petrol cars may have to soon worry again about running out of fuel
The nice (?horrrible?) thing about petrol is that those stations are environmental disasters, and in many parts of the US the laws governing the dismantling/re-purposing of the stations/land make it an extremely expensive development.
This means that you're not likely to find significantly less stations in most areas anytime soon
- WorldMaker 6y agoYou'll certainly find far fewer operating stations in most areas "soon", but you are right that the stations themselves will likely stand as historic monuments of an earlier time far into the future under current US regulations, because dismantling/cleaning/repurposing them is extremely expensive. (I've got a couple old unused stations in my neighborhood already and watching the various ways they are reused, left to rot/wild, signed and resigned and signed again for sale/lease is an odd past time. I can't imagine what things are going to be feeling like when this is an even far more common phenomenon out in the suburbs and exurbs.)