The Human Condition of Intelligence is not Spread Evenly
In 2020, the population of Louisville, Colorado was 21,226. Judging by a year’s growth, today the city likely houses around 22,750 people. The city is located between Denver and Boulder on Highway 36 and is primarily a residential community.
Claiming to battle climate change, and following in the unversed steps of Petaluma, California, recently the Louisville city council voted to limit the number of gas stations to six (6). According to the 2022 census statistics, there were 8,400 housing units in the city, so mathematically each gas station could conceivably service about 1,400 households. This sounds like the reincarnation of the “gas jams” as experienced in the 1970s under President Jimmy Carter.
However, since it is a residential suburban community, gas is likely purchased in other locations where people work or recreate. Louisville is 20 miles from downtown Denver and 10 miles from the center of Boulder. I’ve never understood the absolute inanity of the alarmist crowd for shutting down the basic or fundamental flow of gas and oil. Those that produce or sell the product are not the ones that create or generate CO2 emissions – it’s the user that does so by burning it.
These politicians that conceive a correlation between carbon dioxide and temperatures have it totally backward. If this was the correct approach, these politicians should also shut down all fast food restaurants which would effectively stop people from throwing food wrappers and fry boxes onto roadways and prevent the trash we constantly see or the crews and volunteers that pick it up.
All the Louisville legislative crew has done is:
Monetarily monopolize the gas stations that already exist;
Send tax revenues to other cities where people fill up because of shortages in their own town.
Illustrate how to virtue signal using stupidity as a philosophical base.
They have certainly not fulfilled their mindless mission of terminating any additional CO2 emissions, yet have further advanced authoritarian demands by mandating that each gas station establish at least two electric vehicle charging stations. Proving it’s merely moral madness, the article linked here states, “Speaking before the vote, councilwoman Most admitted that the move wouldn’t stop climate change, but said the small community should continue with the plan anyway.”
In a manner substantially similar, many cities and their political leaders have filed lawsuits against gas and oil companies citing damage to their infrastructure systems triggered by climate change. Not a single city, as yet, has won, instead wasted substantial taxpayer funding on a non-issue. The inability to prove climate change as the culprit is the lunacy of every lawsuit of this type.
The oil companies provided and continue to provide an indispensable product for an advancing society that went from a life expectancy of 39.5 years in 1880 to 79 today. The energy produced from fossil fuels was the largest participant in this wonderful escalation – some may say health and medications – yet none of those or any other advancement would be available without the energy to produce it.
Despite an apparent and uniquely human condition called superior intelligence among mammalians, the lunacy continues.