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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Stop dreaming and take care of the problems now. On second thought, just quit.
Heh! I remember that Rutger Hauer movie. Underrated classic.
You will own nothing—but unfortunately that’s not likely to make you so happy.
He should just stick to being queer and leave it at that.
Just the kind of thing I’d expect from someone who takes it up the gerbil chute.
Booty has definitely been smoking but it wasn’t weed. More like the smoke sausage..
… “Now, that’s pretty far out.” …
ButtEdgeEdge is a stoopid as Kamala.
I heard Buttplug has volunteered for the first spaceflight to Uranus.
One cannot make this c**p up. It takes a special combination of a weak mind, no knowledge of math or engineering, the ability to believe anything, and a history of never having had a real job, to come up with such stupidity.
And the real answer to such stupidity is to require that a set of folks who support whatever inane idea that is being sold actually set up and live under it for a year or so while being observed.
We note with interest all the things that clueless libs mandate, only to ignore themselves. Masks anyone? No private jets anyone? No insider trading anyone? Severly restricted water and electricity use anyone? Thought so.
So we will all be driving government white electrical cars, except for the elites who will drive whatever the hell they want.
A preview of what’s to come:
John Kerry, “a private jet is the only choice for SOMEONE LIKE ME”
Glad I don't have to participate.
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Sounds a LOT like “You will own nothing and be happy” to me.
Sounds a LOT like the government will control everything you do in your life. That’s not a future any of us would want. But commies like Butt-hole live to make that vision real.
no way you are taking away my car buttplug!
“You will own nothing, and you will be happy.”
You’ll own nothing, and be happy.
“Sit around noodling about something that might happen 50 years from now”
Or 100 years or 500 years. What an absolutely UGLY vision of a future. Everybody is owned lock, stock and barrel by the government.
Has Buttigieg ever taken a course in science? Engineering? Economics? This guy is like an 8 year old whishing his way to a perfect world.
It’s what powers “electric” vehicles
Yup.🙄
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