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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He’s NOT A Man !!!!
As President Ronald Reagan said:
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
Great quote!
Sounds like Buttiboy has been sniffing too much KY.
If you have a car payment along with the usual car upkeep along with the usual other things that would be included in Buttigieg’s “plan” there is an overall cost. Combine this with whatever other costs the gov’t. would include & I bet the overall price will be more than you pay before “the plan”. That would be the last thing we need right now.
If you have a car payment along with the usual car upkeep along with the usual other things that would be included in Buttigieg’s “plan” there is an overall cost. Combine this with whatever other costs the gov’t. would include & I bet the overall price will be more than you pay before “the plan”. That would be the last thing we need right now.
What’s a car payment?
Hey, you put mentally ill pillow-biters in the government, this is what you get. Enjoy!
This reminds me of the deceptively named “Individual Shared Responsibility Payment” of Obamacare infamy.
Those of us who have no car payments or paid cash for their vehicles (like my 89 grand waggonneer) give this ‘you own not to g’ crackpot idea a concerted KMA
Nationalization of one industry after another - isn’t that fascism?
The object is, was, and always will be, the destruction of the Middle Class.
A free, prosperous, independent United States is the biggest obstacle to Global Governance.
Some of us do not have car payments....finally....it took 40 years of marriage but we got there!
Yup. The Red Chinese social credit system is coming to the USA and not that far away. Then when we type something here they don’t like, boom, your money is locked up until they allow you to have it. No more cash money, only that digital crap where they can control it.
Yeah, I think I read this one.. I think it was called Agenda twenty-one.
He’s the Catcher for sure...
Can’t wait to ride in one of those “rideshare things”, what a treat!
democRATS...
How about Buttegg pay for it out of his massive monthly Vaseline bill?
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