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Pete Buttigieg speaks out... on climate - cars & trucks gotta go, time to walk or bike (only 9.26 years left)
Washington Post (democracy dies with democrats) ^ | 10/18/21 | Maxine Joselow

Posted on 10/18/2021 3:42:39 PM PDT by Libloather

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has faced a flurry of criticism from Republicans for taking paid parental leave with his husband and two newborns.

But Buttigieg wants to refocus the conversation on another topic entirely: climate change.

“Inevitably, every transportation decision is a climate decision, whether we acknowledge it or not,” Buttigieg said in an interview with The Climate 202. “So I think that's absolutely part of our mandate and part of our set of responsibilities as a department.”

**SNIP**

Cars and trucks account for the bulk of the sector's pollution, according to data from the Environmental Protection Agency. And in addition to boosting electric-vehicle adoption, Buttigieg said DOT will help more Americans ditch their cars for lower-carbon alternatives such as mass transit, biking and walking.

“We have to make cars clean, which is what EVs can do, and we have to give people good transportation alternatives,” he said. “I often say you shouldn't have to take two tons of metal along with you everywhere you go.”

**SNIP**

Asked to identify specific steps DOT is taking to reduce emissions from transportation, Buttigieg said the department is encouraging the use of sustainable aviation fuels, making climate “much more explicit” in its grant programs, and reactivating a climate center within DOT that was dormant during the Trump administration. He declined to offer new details about forthcoming regulations.

Infrastructure bill, COP26 A roughly $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill in Congress is being delayed as progressives refuse to vote on it until the passage of a massive tax-and-spending package, which they say would do more to combat climate change.

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To: metmom
I wonder what steps he personally is taking to reduce he carbon footprint.

Well, we know he's not going to work.

In fact, he's going to milk his maternity leave for all it's worth, for the earth of course.

21 posted on 10/18/2021 4:03:15 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Libloather

....only 9.26 years left.....

NOPE!!!!

And electric cars equal coal and batteries built of Chinese materials—NOT clean at all!!!!


22 posted on 10/18/2021 4:04:11 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Jonty30

what a hypocrite. ‘Let them eat cake.’

This mentality is so infuriating. One day his time will come.


23 posted on 10/18/2021 4:05:12 PM PDT by hoe_cake (A Descendant of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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To: Libloather

We need electric vehicles powered by coal


24 posted on 10/18/2021 4:05:44 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: caseinpoint

I have a friend who is a skilled carpenter and does excellent home renovations. He turns down twice as much biz as he actually does.

There are a lot of braceros who build the new houses to a formula, but not many folks doing skilled work these days.


25 posted on 10/18/2021 4:05:48 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Tai_Chung

I have read that is exactly what China is doing to conserve liquid fuels for their military.


26 posted on 10/18/2021 4:06:57 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Libloather

What a loser.


27 posted on 10/18/2021 4:07:05 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Libloather

So, did Gayer Pete bike to his home for the three-month “paternity leave” he took?


28 posted on 10/18/2021 4:07:46 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Enough. Divide the country.. now. )
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To: Libloather

Does any one else see the absurdity of this guy wearing a mask?!


29 posted on 10/18/2021 4:09:33 PM PDT by GMThrust
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To: seowulf

Gonna be hard to deliver a load of firewood on a bicycle.


30 posted on 10/18/2021 4:11:34 PM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: oldasrocks
Gonna be hard to deliver a load of firewood on a bicycle.

One stick at a time. Besides, you won't need all that firewood because of all the exercise, and that way you'll save a tree for the earth and climate change.

31 posted on 10/18/2021 4:16:49 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Libloather

Only spurred to come out and and say something because he was being ridiculed for being on “paternity leave.”


32 posted on 10/18/2021 4:19:33 PM PDT by browniexyz
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To: Libloather

If we have 9 years left, why should we bother to listen to what these commies have to say? Live your life and do what you want.


33 posted on 10/18/2021 4:20:20 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Libloather

Let’s go Buttplug.


34 posted on 10/18/2021 4:23:08 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

bttt


35 posted on 10/18/2021 4:24:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Libloather

Considering Butt* has had his job for 6 months and done nothing but talk, we see he is perfectly qualified to work in DC.


36 posted on 10/18/2021 4:25:48 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Steven Tyler
mebe we get the illegals to pull rickshaws full of stuff from the port of LA to all the shopping malls....

Kramer and Newman already tried a version of that.

37 posted on 10/18/2021 4:27:22 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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To: MtnClimber

You wonder why the aliens avoid our solar system like anyone with smarts avoids southside chiraq or southside atl.


38 posted on 10/18/2021 4:28:40 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Libloather

Yes, snowing, below zero, and windy. A bicycle won’t work, nor walking very far. And that trip to Walmart or Costco, definitely not going to work to bring home a case of paper towels.


39 posted on 10/18/2021 4:30:27 PM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: Libloather

He’s as big a joke as Kamala Harris.

It’s breathtaking, how wrong he is for the job.


40 posted on 10/18/2021 4:33:06 PM PDT by simpson96
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