Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Cheese, Moose, Sister; Conspiracy; Outdoors; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: alfredeneuman; bootyjudge; buttgag; buttgiggity; buttigieg; buttplug; climatechange; climatechangehoax; fake; fakescience; fraud; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; homosexualagenda; scam
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-63 next last
To: Libloather

To Butt-gig-

To pass on a great phrase, recently tossed at an elevator riding Karen:
“I don’t care what you think”


41 posted on 10/18/2021 4:38:15 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuitss)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Steely Tom

Pete loves the high energy prices. He thinks expensive gas will destroy demand. Hang this bell on that Cats neck.


42 posted on 10/18/2021 4:40:42 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

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


43 posted on 10/18/2021 4:45:45 PM PDT by MAGAthon
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DJ MacWoW

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.


44 posted on 10/18/2021 4:58:49 PM PDT by beef (The Chinese have a little secret—diversity is _not_ a strength.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: beef

Sounds about right. Yuk.


45 posted on 10/18/2021 5:02:17 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

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.


46 posted on 10/18/2021 5:02:32 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

47 posted on 10/18/2021 5:03:13 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Get those bikes to the Port of LA then.


48 posted on 10/18/2021 5:10:04 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Is he gonna lead by example? Any of them?


49 posted on 10/18/2021 5:12:36 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BookmanTheJanitor

He needs an e-bike with a lithium-ion battery that is recharged by burning coal.


50 posted on 10/18/2021 5:17:28 PM PDT by bigbob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

I am glad it is fall and I have fired up the wood burning stove. Time to help out all of this global cooling.


51 posted on 10/18/2021 5:31:41 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Obvious BS blathered by Pervert on behalf of Central Intersectional Agency, none of whom know anything about transportation nor energy provision for transportation.


52 posted on 10/18/2021 5:32:57 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

“Electric vehicles” = coal powered vehicles


53 posted on 10/18/2021 5:50:34 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Call the Teamsters, NO TRUCK DELIVERIES to DC


54 posted on 10/18/2021 5:56:27 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

I just can’t with these liars & crazies.


55 posted on 10/18/2021 6:15:40 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Pete, if we only have 9 years left, why did you and your pretend husband ADOPT two kids? How are you getting them around?


56 posted on 10/18/2021 7:28:00 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

tar and feather this fags ass and tie him to the Amtracks zephyr.


57 posted on 10/18/2021 7:33:22 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (Dementia Joe and the Whore, leaders of the Free world. ( F-you dementia Joe.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

It’s so true!


58 posted on 10/18/2021 8:58:37 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: nascarnation

These days a manual transmission is an antitheft device.


59 posted on 10/18/2021 8:59:42 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

ok, line the bike delivery guys up at the ports - one package each

has this guy ever been west?


60 posted on 10/18/2021 9:12:27 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-63 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson