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.
At this rate, CA may go into the Trump column too.
Cars equal freedom, so NO!
Try it, Obama brains.
From my cold dead hands...
This jackass just nuked his campaign!! Not even liberals will give up their cars!
Why do these people live in such a bubble?
Elimination of cars?
Why Free Republic needs a "Like" button!
Delusional.
Clearly an urbanite unaware of the reality and importance of car culture.
Nonstarter.
I was thinking more along the lines of camel or donkey and take a long ride thru Death Valley, AZ and other places where it’s very hot and also humid.
Instead of climate change, I think we need diaper change.
Political reform may require the elimination - politically, of Mister Yang.
If only the Soviets had known they could have eliminated those 10 year waiting times to pick up a new car, helping to remove scheduling conflicts because the plumber was coming on the same day....
Oh, I guess we’ll need to do away with owning our own plumbing too...
Where will the electricity come from for his magical roving fleet of electric cars? Asking for a friend.
In Yang’s America everyone would still be free to criticize how Reagan had run America....
And where will the energy required to mine the minerals necessary for the batteries come from?
Apparently the Obamas aren’t worried about rising sea levels....
It’s like the old Yakov Smirnoff joke,
A Russian and American were debating the merits of their respective countries.....The American said, “In my country, I can say I don’t like the American President.” The Russian retorted, “I can do the same in my country, I too can say I don’t like the American President.”
It is about the limitation or elimination of individual Liberty. A kid’s first bike meant he could multiply where he could go and still be home for dinner. His first car meant the beach could be reached any day he wanted. A date with the girl in his class who lived five miles away was doable when she said yes. A vacation could become a road ttip with unexpected stops . You could come home on a Friday from work and tell your spouse to pack a bag and you eould ho to the Cape or the Jersey Shore or the Casino in Mystic. A car is the lifeblood of the kid gtowing up in North Platte, Battle Mountain, Tucumcari, Rawlins.
The problem with even the most well meaning leftists is that while they might understand freedom, they have no idea about Liberty
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