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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No, shock collars, so they can be shocked repeatedly.😏
Most people over age 30 who still have Car Payments are idiots.
Exactly.🙄
This thoughy has been around for years.
What they are saying is that you can buy a car and lend lease it while it would otherwise be idle at night or at work, etc...
This concept makes great sense some time in the future with self driving vehicles. For instance a retirement community may offer a subscription service for access to transportation for vehicles like a time share by the hour.
It is beyond idiotic for the govt to be involved.
they promise the jetsons then deliver the flintstones
WEF:
“You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy.”
OR ELSE!
I understand what you mean. But lefties are against nuclear power. They want to get rid of it everywhere they can.
Peter is brain dead just like Biden..
enough said..
I bet Buttigieg doesn’t give up his personal vehicle.
Transportation as a service.
We already have and have had for a long time - busses, trains, taxis and now ubers. And as self driving cars come along this will expand rapidly.
But for ir to eliminate the need/desire for private cars it will have to be as convenient and cheaper in cost.
For places like big, crowded cities like NYC, SF, etc this may happen sooner than later.
The government doesn’t have to do anything for this to happen. The market will take care of it. The only thing the government would do is screw it up.
They want to force us onto public transportation so the ferals can rob and assault us at will.
A pervert has perverted ideas about everything.
You’ll all depend on us, you will not own your own vehicle. The government will take care of everything for you.
What he really means is rationed travel. You will be issued travel coupons monthly. Only travel coupons will be accepted for transportation costs.
A hundred miles a month sounds fair, doesn't it?
...as they want to get rid of coal, natural gas etc.
Logic is not their strong suit in their green energy plans.
Or, as my dad would have said to them; “you’re not thinking being the end of your own nose”
Good point. What it also means is government wants to control everything you do, everything you purchase, everything you eat and everywhere you go.
This sounded like something Kamala would say. It is that idiotic.
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