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 Butt-gig-
To pass on a great phrase, recently tossed at an elevator riding Karen:
“I don’t care what you think”
Pete loves the high energy prices. He thinks expensive gas will destroy demand. Hang this bell on that Cats neck.
he is unfit for purpose, like most of the climate facecards.
BBC knows how to find them. Hohn has been a shill for years, with his phony “children’s” “foundation”:
26m30s to 29s51s: Cliona Howie, CEO, Foundation Earth, scheme to label every single component of every product worldwide with their environmental grade system, based on traffic system - GREEN to red, plus A to G, using their rigourous, scientific methodology.
45m to 52m59s: Chris Hohn, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation; wants mandatory bank divestment in fossil fuels, steel, cement, chemicals, transportation; 90% of known coal reserves & 60% of known oil & gas reserves must be left in the ground, etc; admits he profited from the “system”, but he is now on a mission over “climate” because he has children, cares for the poor children of the world, and he believes in “social justice”.
AUDIO: 52m59s: BBC World Service: Newshour
Presenter: James Menendez
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172xv5bswcm3k0
Foundation Earth: Our friends and Partners
Tyson, Nestle, Pepsico ETC ETC
https://www.foundation-earth.org/
from Cliona Howie’s bio: Cliona has held important roles such as championing sustainable business in SMEs as the Chair of the European Commission’s Enterprise Europe Network for several years, as well as sitting on a range of committees and working groups for the European Commission to influence policy and EU funding programmes.
Wikipedia: Chris Hohn
Sir Christopher Anthony Hohn KCMG (born October 1966) is a British billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist.
In 2003, Hohn established The Children’s Investment Fund Management (TCI), a prominent value-based investment fund manager noted for long-term, owner orientated engagement with publicly listed companies. Profits generated by the fund were proportionately allocated to The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, a registered charity in England and Wales that focuses on improving the lives of children living in poverty in developing countries. He is known as an activist investor.
As of 2014, he had given over $4.5 billion to The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. Hohn is worth $5 billion according to the Forbes billionaires list in 2020, an increase of $1.9 billion from 2019. In 2019 Forbes put Hohn in the list of the world’s most generous philanthropists outside of the US. In recent years, Hohn has become an outspoken advocate of urgent action on the climate crisis, and a prolific contributor to the cause...
In 2019 it was reported by The Daily Telegraph that Hohn had donated £50,000 to environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion, with a further £150,000 donated by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation. None of the Charity’s money was spent on civil disobedience, it was claimed.[16]
In April 2020, he made a £2.4 million donation to purchase around 100 SAMBA II machines to test for COVID-19.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hohn
And when you get home, you find out your electricity was cut off because you reached your limit on that. You eat your bugs raw.
Sounds about right. Yuk.
I’d love to see Petey go through a 4-hour hemodialysis treatment and then cycle 45 minutes home in a thunderstorm. That’s where this suggestion goes.
A friend of mine suggested that I start cycling instead of driving, just for the hell of it, and explained that it would only make things worse. My heart is not in the best shape, my transplanted kidney is barely hanging on, and God forbid I spent my day puking. Driving I could do. A bicycle? No way.
Get those bikes to the Port of LA then.
Is he gonna lead by example? Any of them?
He needs an e-bike with a lithium-ion battery that is recharged by burning coal.
I am glad it is fall and I have fired up the wood burning stove. Time to help out all of this global cooling.
Obvious BS blathered by Pervert on behalf of Central Intersectional Agency, none of whom know anything about transportation nor energy provision for transportation.
“Electric vehicles” = coal powered vehicles
Call the Teamsters, NO TRUCK DELIVERIES to DC
I just can’t with these liars & crazies.
Pete, if we only have 9 years left, why did you and your pretend husband ADOPT two kids? How are you getting them around?
tar and feather this fags ass and tie him to the Amtracks zephyr.
It’s so true!
These days a manual transmission is an antitheft device.
ok, line the bike delivery guys up at the ports - one package each
has this guy ever been west?
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