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.
Not a single luxury
Like Robinson Crusoe
It's primitive as can be
“Hell, yes, I’m coming for your SUVs, your sportscars, your minivans...”
Yang: Climate Change May Require Elimination of Car Ownership.
It is truly amazing that some imbeciles live as long as they do without the aid of functioning brains.
Yang should get governor Gruesome Newsome to try banning cars in the People’s Republic of California first!
-——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.-——
Which alternative reality does this exist in?????
If this is so serious, I demand that as of this moment, 4:45pm CST, 19 Sep 2019, Mr. Yang give away any cars, trucks, or motorcycles he owns, renounces traveling in motor vehicles owned by others, traveling on buses, trains (of all types) aircraft and any boats and ships that are powered by fuel oil or coal, and begin walking everywhere he wants/needs to go.
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip ...
-——Not even liberals will give up their cars!-——
Of course they won’t.....
They want us to give up our cars...
The professor still built a car out of materials on the island.
Horse thievery was greatly frowned upon.
This will not go well for Andrew.
One candidate wants our guns.
Another one wants our cars.
I bethcha I know which one wants our kids!
Reeducation camps cannot be too far behind in these candidates’ beliefs.
Bring on run out on a rail.
See, this is why there are no honest people in politics.
Ok, fine. Then send that electric car out 30 miles to pick me up, drive 30 miles back into town to take me to the grocery store, drive me back home 30 miles and return itself 30 miles for a recharge. Those extra 60 miles will add up fast.
But what about those of us that live in the country? I guess I’d get in great shape riding 8 miles one way to town. Kinda tough carrying the 50 lb bags of feed since we get several at a time. Hmmm. Cars are pretty much a requirement here.
Oh, that's what the Collective Farms are for.
Or come for our guns and we run them over with our cars.
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