We could treat them like Thralls.
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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“And then one time, at band camp...”
Ya I’d say he could kma but he’d probably enjoy it.
This dude is an idiot. No wonder his military buddies sent him out to drive around generals, the job an E-5 might have.
Butt-man needs to volunteer for the “manned” Mars mission—his ideas will fit in very well there.
Politicians should be fitted with explosive collars for when they get out of line.
Buy cars that are easier and cheaper to repair and will have available parts for the foreseeable future.
He left out space shuttles ...
Make you dependent on us and also make you pay us for it…
Go away powder puff.
So basically, the government will take care of our every need no matter what.
They will print unlimited amounts of money and inflation will be 50% each month or more. New cars will cost a minimum of $250,000 but it doesn’t matter, Big Brother will give us whatever we need.
Of course, the country will be in shambles, and general misery will abound. But they care for us, unlike those hateful Republicans, and that’s all that matters.
/sarc
Siri, show me an example of what stoners talk about at 3 in the morning.
With ideas like this, Buttplug needs to go back on maternity leave.
“Let’s imagine” again, as in “Let’s imagine a man can breast-feed”. I used to imagine a 21st century with spaceships zipping around and zap gun duels with bug-eyed monsters, but I had to give that up when I became an adult. Let’s imagine teaching children that 2 + 2 = 4, for starters. The rest will follow.
Exactly! It sounds like a plucking to me.
Radical liberals have more than one loose screw.
No matter how far down the road this might be, it’s still
close enough to cause major fatalities for US citizens.
If you support this, please wear an armband.
Another Beto wannabe. Beto got the big money because he fooled them into thinking he’s another RFK. Ended up being exposed like Hartpence and Edwards, just on policy alone.
So what do we make of Buttigeg? Like the other 2 expose him for what he is and isn’t.
Let the black voter deal with his 2-way transmission sewer line.
He’s all they got. The Kenyan had 4 years to build on his 2004 speech. If CNN had no clue with CNN+ I think the rats don’t have a clue either. Set him up like we couldn’t with Howard Dean.
This admin has so many ideas, but none of them are even remotely good.
We could treat them like Thralls.
This sounds really silly, especially when some people pay cash for a car and some people work at home. Boy am I glad I took early retirement!!
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