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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Crazy, Stupid and Evil. You win the Trifecta, Buttgurgle.
This is how we go from private ownership, to big gov handing out credit cards to all citizens, working or not.
This quickly morphs a big section of the economy into a “Free” handout.
Marxist slave pimps never stop thinking about the next sector to take over and distribute.
I think Pete the girly boy has been viewing the North Korean model of transportation.
Everything is free in a workers paradise.
His poor adopted kids are going to be so screwed up. Anti drug and suicide prevention programs should be scheduled, ASAP.
Can you imagine the embarrassment of being an American if this guy makes it to the Whitehouse?
Yes, I’m an American, and my country is led by a guy who licks another man butt hole. Election steal, part two. That’s how it happens.
Socialists do socialist stuff.
So, my car is PAID for, but if butt-plug Pete gets his way, I’ll still have to pay for my car that I’ve already paid for.
Same for “Go F’ yourself”
But I own four cars and I don’t have a car payment. How will this affect me? 🤣
I do pay about $240 a month for insurance for all four cars and my home, and about $260 a year for license tabs for all four cars. But I’d like to keep it at that, thank you sir
These people are creative husslers. Urban dwellers may not have a car.
Our nation is led by the unaccomplished, the depraved, and the let’s-pretend.
“And then one time, at band camp...”
I actually went to band camp, 3 summers straight. What ever you heard... was probably either rumors, innuendo, or an outright falsehood.
😉
LOLOL
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