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.
Actually, there were a couple of cars in my past that I have gladly surrendered to the government if they had asked me at the right time.
"HURAAAAAAAH!"
Actually, it’s from a joke Reagan himself told.
The American industrialist told his soviet counterpart that he could walk into Ronald Reagan’s office and tell him he didn’t like what he was doing.
“Oh, I can do that too!”
“Really! I can walk into Gorbachev’s office, bang my fist on his desk, and tell him I didn’t like what Reagan was doing.”
Amen!
Probably several variations of the joke. Sounds like the kind of joke Reagan would tell.
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No Cars, no guns, no animal/fish/fowl protein for anyone but the elite in Congress. Then forced terminal Hospice for the non elite over 60. The lucky ones get some Soy-lent Green for food.
No homes or anything of value will be passed on to any relatives/survivors unless they are children of the elite. All homes and anything of value goes to the ruling elites to be used or gifted to non white liberals.
No one but liberal elites can live within 20 miles of any coastal land.
House/janitors cleaners/gardeners and home repairers are bused daily at day break from shared communes with only solar heat and solar power and no batteries to the elites’s coastal homes. Then, after dark, they will be returned to their unlit/cold communes after dark. They will work 7 days a week until they can no longer work. Then, they will be replaced by younger workers.
Yang first.
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Don’t be absurd. Private cars will still be available for our leaders, just not for the people. You can’t expect them to have to wait to order up that electric car—they have important work to do—the people’s work!
Picture Moscow traffic in the 1960s and you’ll have Yang’s vision for our future.
...and that is exactly why DF posted that.
Chinamen are happy to live like ants...
Electricity grows on trees—everybody knows that!
Yang is, I’m sure, willing to compromise on the issue. He won’t eliminate all cars, just yours. Really important people like him need to be flexible to travel at a moment’s notice, so they’d be exempt. It’s exactly what their current approach is to jet travel.
If he wins the nomination will his running mate be Yin?
Why exactly would electric cars NOT be available on the market? Leftists are opposed to private ownership of anything that has high value and demand.
no guns
no cars
no meat
no straws
no plastic bags
no paper bags
no airplanes
no cows - no milk no cheese no ice cream
no coal
no natgas
no petroleum - no plastics
no doubts ... liberals are insane
Or Beijing pre-1980s...
So, let us go down the list of Democrat lust:
1) Forcibly take semiautomatic firearms.
2) Forcibly ban consumer cars.
3) Forcibly ban all forms of plastic, to include straws and grocery bags.
4) Declare there are 57 genders and ostracize anyone who disagrees.
5) Deny conservative (or even moderate) viewpoints and opinions on all manners of social media.
6) Continue to murder millions of unborn children.
7) Ignore Constitutional requirements in elections, such as the Electoral College.
8) Raid 401k funds for public disbursement.
Is there anything to like about these Satanic, totalitarian statists?
‘MSNBC’s climate forum at Georgetown University Thursday morning.’
what else would you expect him to say about fossil fuel to this assemblage...?
“Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said the United States may have to eliminate private car ownership to combat climate change.”
Except for our commissars and apparatchiks, who will be issued state-owned cars. They will be allowed to drive them during good, politically correct behavior.
This has always been the endgame for the leftists. Make sure the poor, the lower-middle class and the middle class cannot drive — force them into high-rise apartments near downtown and mass transit. The commissars and their buddies would then have the roads to themselves. They would justify it the same way Bono and Gore justify spewing greenhouse gases while flying all over the world doing “important” work for mankind fighting global warming.
There was very little traffic in Moscow during communist reign for precisely this reason. It was great if you were allowed a car. Kind of sucked for regular people.
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