Posted on 04/23/2022 9:41:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The secretary of transportation says a "monthly mobility dividend" could be in the nation's longer-term future.
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg suggested that transitioning to a "monthly transportation payment" from monthly car payments could be in America's future.
Buttigieg also said a "monthly mobility dividend" could lie further out in the future.
"What I mean by that is if we're looking way out into the future, where we have things like, let's imagine distributed energy generation where you have resources at your house, whether it's a dramatically more efficient, even solar panels and wind resources," Buttigieg said Wednesday at an event hosted by the liberal think tank New America.
"From your home, you can put more into the transportation system than you get out of it through things like energy, so that you would participate in creating so much value that you'd actually get a net dividend on it, instead of paying into it on a net basis," he added. "Now, that's pretty far out."
A "more intermediate goal" in the U.S. would be transitioning from monthly car payments to a "monthly transportation payment that's quite a bit less than a car payment that covers everything," said Buttigieg, a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020.
"We're actually seeing certain glimmers of this now," he said. "So some of the rideshare companies, for example, are starting to look at mobility as a service where you have some kind of interface, and it's neutral on whether you're on one of their bikes, or in one of their rideshare things or just on public transit, or some combination thereof, or it even leads to a train ticket or something.
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Good point...everyone who owns their vehicles free and clear will eventually need to give them up and apply for their monthly mobility payments.
They better be careful or they gonna get set up the bom
Exactly, but you can add control everything you think and say to that list too.
XD XD
And your travel allowances will be subject to revocation is you don’t fall in line.
No mask? No traveling for you!
—”They are always looking for ways to pay their voters directly.”
Not to worry!
It will be combined with your unpaid student loan!
I knew when airport screeners started groping my privates this would not end well. We have been groomed to be proper sheep.
So basically instead of paying for a depreciating asset, which usually has some residual value at end of life, you’re just paying for something that retains no value.
Negative income streams for everyone and you’ll be happy!
Even discussing or considering these freedom killing schemes, America should have revolted...Long ago.
Podunk mayor from Midwest.
Our Secretary of Transportation would be off to a decent start if he would simply acknowledge the difference between anus and vagina.
We will take your money and control your ability to travel.
They tried something similar with RFID chips in my horses-—and rules that made me report EVERY where I went OFF my property—either ON the horse or using the trailer.
Smoking something at the wrong end ... as usual.
He’s been bicycling with just the seat post again.
I always liked the heart plug idea.
Just fix the potholes, NancyBoy, K?
Part of the reason cars are so expensive to repair is because of government mileage, emissions, and safety regulations.
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