I wonder why we need more gas stations. I own several vehicles of various vintages and there is not a single one that I couldn't crank up and drive from an exi

I wonder why we need more gas stations. I own several vehicles of various vintages and there is not a single one that I couldn't crank up and drive from an existing gasoline station in my home town to any other connected, accessible location on my continent. Indeed, I can actually drive the 4WD vehicles I own deep into the countryside where there are no gasoline stations and never have a single fuel supply related problem with proper planning and equipment. The fuel tanks on my vehicles range in volume from 10.5 US gallons to 33 US gallons and fuel economy numbers range from 32 mpg down to 12 mpg. That means for any of my vehicles I have a range of more than 300 miles (10.5 * 32 = 336 miles and 33 * 12 = 396 miles). I will encounter lots of existing gasoline stations along any route I choose. I think the idea behind building new stations has to revolve around making it more convenient for people moving to new subdivisions to fuel their vehicles locally. If you don't build out gasoline station infrastructure near new construction then those who choose to live there are required to monitor their fuel consumption closely enough that they always know when they should gas up on the way home. They should be doing this anyway IMHO. I don't think we need new gasoline stations in summary because I think all places are already accessible with our current infrastructure. And I would like to expand on or clarify a statement in the article that is very important and was not stated well. From the article about halfway down: >>But it’s not all good news. The long-term shift to electric and a mass closures of gas stations will create toxic “brown sites” across the country. A typical gas station can spill up to 100 gallons of gasoline annually, ... ...these poisoned plots will present an environmental problem of monumental proportions. This paragraph makes it seem as if the existence of a gas station is environmentally fine until that station is closed or decommissioned at which point it becomes a brown site requiring remediation. That is not true at all. Once you fill the tanks and begin serving gasoline to customers there will always be some spillage at the pumps. The gasoline station becomes a brown site when it begins operation but you are typically only able to begin remediation when the station is shut down and no longer serves gasoline or when there is a documented leak from the underground tanks that makes it critical to shut down the station for repairs. Therefore, all existing gasoline stations are already toxic environmental sites and the problem is indeed monumental today. I see no reason to add to the problem by building new gasoline stations.