The New Gas Station on Rainier Is Everything We Don't Need

Welcome to the 21st-century Safeway on Rainier: We are still burning fossil fuels. Charles Mudede
This is what happens when the market is free to do as it pleases. The only justification to replace a community institution like the Silver Fork restaurant with a gas station is that the latter will make more money for the property owner. And this kind of thing is happening at a time when the city has massive transportation challenges that cannot be solved by increasing car traffic. We actually need