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-Bye Freedom
That might work in Florida-where most older people are actually retired and just play golf, go to stores, the beach, etc-but in a rural part of Texas like this-no thanks-people retire so they can start a small/home based business and keep more of their own money at last-and you can’t live out here without your own pickup or SUV, etc if you run a business, or even drive the 15 miles to get your own groceries.
Like all the rest of the other delusions Bootyjudge and the rest of the democrats have, it is a vision of a govt dependent society where we ordinary people own nothing and only go where they are told they can by the government-or else they turn off your power, etc...
The watermelons (green on the outside / red on the inside) never talk about:
* How many millions of acres of farmland or wildlife habitat will they need for all of the solar panels and windmills?
* Where will the rare earth metals come from that are needed for the solar panels and windmills? (Answer: China)
* Why get rid of dams, which provide hydroelectric sustainable energy?
* How will the electric grids provide the necessary energy for all of the electric vehicles?
* etc.
The issue is never the issue [green energy, in this case]. The issue is the revolution.
“We control your movements.”
No “public transportation” in this rural area-neighbors usually pitch in to help , and we also have local people who provide transportation for people unable to drive-disabled, etc for errands, appointments-much better than depending on govt-enough BS about unicorn farts indeed...
I worked for a time with a Cuban expat/escapee who liked to joke about how well the Castro regime controlled prices of commodities...
They kept the price of meat affordable for the people, he always told us...There was never any for sale in the markets, but the price was always low...
If I were him, I wouldn’t be making any long range plans. As the 29th century joke goes, if I were him, I wouldn’t buy any long playing records.
“It’s what powers “electric” vehicles”
I leased a Tesla model S for a year
. My solar panels make 100+ kWh per say I have 15,000 watts worth on trackers and another 10,000 on the guesthouse in the back. Even in January I have a net export of power to the ERCOT grid. My Tesla was for that year fully charged in the regular from those same panels. For $18,000 I can put 12,000 watts worth of panels up on a roofline and power a 2000 sqft house and easily cover 14,000 miles per year in an EV. A model S will go 4 miles on one kWh. The avg American drives less than 40 miles per day with most of those individual trips under 6 miles. Why because more Americans live in cities with high density only a few live in the sticks with the rednecks. 40 miles or less per day is 10kWh of energy or less per day. Two commercial sized 450 watt panels will make that in a sunny Texas day with some to spare. Those panels are 8”*4” two of them for on the roof of an average two car garage with room for 4 of them actually so both cars can be powered by the sun. Welcome to the 21st century boomers.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/985183/size-urban-rural-population-us/
Here is the trip distances by percentages of.total trips. Official reviewed and verified data at that.
https://afdc.energy.gov/data/mobile/10318
Exactly. The government will only let you go whenever you want they decide you can.
In the meantime, much of the rest of the country, will have their mandatory solar panels covered by snow for several months during the winter, unable to drive anywhere and freeze to death in their homes.
Send him and his husband/wife to Mars and they can procreate all they want for a new colony!
B’s plan is that no one owns anything in a world of universal abundance, so carjacking is obsolete. Property causes theft and is just an excuse for racially disparate punishment.
Yes, we will have unlimited access to public electric scooters… but nobody will take responsibility to charge them.
Buttplug has sucked so many sh**ty male genitalia that he now has s**t for brains.
“...here you have resources at your house, whether it’s a dramatically more efficient...”
I found the rainbow unicorn in this fairytale.
Well — known fact — liberals screw loosely, and their self-awareness requires that you do likewise, thus their many enticements, backed up by mandates.
At root, they all know they’re going to Hell, and don’t want to go without you.
A shock collar would be safer for those in his or her vicinity, and a lot more fun to watch when engaged.
Can I have a pony?
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