Posted on 09/19/2019 2:10:58 PM PDT by robowombat
Yang: Climate Change May Require Elimination of Car Ownership Imagines 'constant roving fleet of electric cars' as alternative
Graham Piro - SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 2:05 PM
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said the United States may have to eliminate private car ownership to combat climate change during MSNBC's climate forum at Georgetown University Thursday morning.
He told MSNBC host Ali Velshi that "we might not own our own cars" by 2050 to wean the United States economy off of fossil fuels, describing private car ownership as "really inefficient and bad for the environment." Privately owned cars would be replaced by a "constant roving fleet of electric cars."
A video posted by the GOP War Room shows Velshi asking Yang what measures he sees the world taking to fight climate change by 2050.
"You have this ability to envision the future, right, with your proposals on universal basic income. You've played the whole chess game out and you see what it looks like on the other end. Play the chess game out on climate change," Velshi said. "What does the world look like to you in 2050? What physically do you think we will do differently than we do today that will result in us fighting climate change?"
"Well I mentioned before that we might not own our own cars. Our current car ownership and usage model is really inefficient and bad for the environment," Yang said.
"You guys all probably agree with this because you're quite young," he told the Georgetown University crowd, adding an anecdote about driving a 1985 Honda Accord as a young man.
Yang then proposed an alternative to individuals owning their own cars.
"What we're really selling is not the car, it's mobility," he said. "So if you have mobility that's then tied into a much more, if you had like, for example, this constant roving fleet of electric cars that you would just order up, then you could diminish the impact of ground transportation on our environment very, very quickly."
Yang's climate plan calls for nearly $5 trillion in spending over the next 20 years. His proposal includes embracing the impacts of climate change.
"Move our people to higher ground. Natural disasters and other effects of climate change are already causing damage and death. We need to adapt our country to this new reality," his plan states.
The plan also includes a zero emissions standard for all new cars by 2030 and hundreds of billions of dollars in investments in emission-free ground and air transportation.
Yang enjoyed a recent polling bump and is now in fourth place in the California primary ahead of formerly "top-tier" candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.). "Must have been the crowdsurfing," he tweeted.
Come and get them...my chainsaw is sharpened.
Theoretically to put the Green New Deal and the other ‘Economic Bill of Rights’ major initiatives into place would require subordinating the US economy and society to an overall political and economic authority. On the economic side something along the lines of a centrally controlled economy with all elements subordinated to a planning mechanism akin to the Soviet model and a GOSPLAN type organization to calculate resource allocation for planned goals and objectives. On the social side the population would have to be controlled by various agencies from pre-K to ‘end of life’ planning. In this way labor could be conscripted and directed to fulfill various Green/Economic New Deal objectives while also providing away to monitor the ‘social score card’ of each American and to enable the state to identify and apply various remedies for the identified anti-social personalities.
In short to quote Mao ‘Politics in Command, Onward Comrades’.
It never fails to amaze me how so many stupid people are rich.
You are giving horses a bad name!
Every adult Normal American KNOWS that EVERY “Dem candidate” produces FAR more “manure” than horses do!
To be blunt, all a state has to do is jack up registration fees and gas taxes. California is doing a bangup job of it, to the point where car usage in California costs 30% higher per mile than any other state.
Horse farts don’t cause global warming?
...except of course the important people, like Democrat politicians and members of the Deep State.
Robin Williams, in the film Man of the Year (2006).
Clearly his running mate will be Yin.
Actually, Yang is pretty Yin himself.
It can’t be that hard to procure. Might want to start stocking up, and fly a “Join or Die” pennant. Could be fun.
They can have my Shelby GT500 when they pry my cold, dead hands from the steering wheel.
Yang is shady.
I run husky pro saws and have my own chain grinder, all the chains are sharp.
but my favorite toys are those that fly.
Thanks for reminding me to fire up the chain sharpener...we are in peak hurricane season and there may be some serious tree cutting ahead.
what does the DNC hope to gain by fielding candidates this mentally unstable? and yes my tagline applies more so now than ever.
Everyone should get their haircut like he does.
Plenty of tar at Lowes or Home Despot ...
Got a line on feathers?
I’m sure there’s plenty not being used at the chicken processors. They don’t have to be sanitary feathers...
Does Beto one better! WTG Yang, you’ll get elected for shizzle!
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