Buttigieg floats 'monthly transportation payment' that 'covers everything' to replace car payments

[mountaineer]

Buttigieg floats 'monthly transportation payment' that 'covers everything' to replace car payments
The secretary of transportation says a "monthly mobility dividend" could be in the nation's longer-term future.
By Nicholas Ballasy
Updated: April 22, 2022 - 10:40pm

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." ...

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[Smokin Joe]

Oh, Hell no. Single family homeowners will 'contribute' far more in this model than the cities, just by virtue of more space for his photovoltaics.

Like I said, the next Holodomor will happen here, over energy.

[mystery-ak]

Buttigieg floats 'monthly transportation payment' that 'covers everything' to replace car payments

The secretary of transportation says a "monthly mobility dividend" could be in the nation's longer-term future.

 Nicholas Ballasy

Updated: April 22, 2022 - 10:40pm


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.

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https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/transportation/buttigieg-floats-transitioning-monthly-mobility-dividend-monthly-car

[Killer Clouds]

Ummmmmmm WHAT?

[Free Vulcan]

We are thru the looking glass. It's like listening to the Bezerkly U college Marxist club.

Not sure about that though, I think the current admin are even more off the deep end.

[Wingnut]

That boy sure is a deep thinker. 

[LMAO]

These people throw out these proposals and yet they never think them through or the consequences of what they propose

This whole administration thinks like tenured professors who finally got jobs in government

[Cyber Liberty]

So, rather than owning our cars, we'll lease them from the government?  Gosh, I don't even know where to begin in describing this as the worst idea ever proposed.

[Kamaji]

So, basically, he wants everyone - except his favored minorities, of course (think Black Privilege) - to pay a monthly fee to the government just for the right to move around and go where one wants?

In several years' time:  Federal Transport Police Officer:  "Sorry sir, I can't let you leave your housing cell; you haven't paid your Buttigieg transportation fee this month."

[Wingnut]

So, rather than owning our cars, we'll lease them from the government?  Gosh, I don't even know where to begin in describing this as the worst idea ever proposed.

We'll all be driving a US EV, the Lada II, a car for the Collective.  Put down your money for it and in 10 years you can pick it up.

Time for the Ronald Reagan Russia car joke!

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I9AdLnjP0M

[andy58-in-nh]

This is actually part of "The Great Reset".
 
You will take public transportation everywhere and receive a monthly government transit payment.
     
You will live in government/bank-owned housing and receive a government stipend to pay living expenses. 
 
You will own nothing and like it!

[Smokin Joe]

This is actually part of "The Great Reset".
 
You will take public transportation everywhere and receive a monthly government transit payment.
     
You will live in government/bank-owned housing and receive a government stipend to pay living expenses. 
 
You will own nothing and like it!

Well, there isn't any public transportation here.

I'm not paying any more fees for services that I cannot use. (Damned taxes are high enough.)

Yeah, that's right, I'm Taxed Enough Already!

[Killer Clouds]

Well, there isn't any public transportation here.

I'm not paying any more fees for services that I cannot use. (Damned taxes are high enough.)

Yeah, that's right, I'm Taxed Enough Already!

I can say the same. No public transportation here either YET.

[roamer_1]

Yeah, that's right, I'm Taxed Enough Already!

That's right. 

[christian]

With the new electric automobiles, energy usage in America and shortages will skyrocket.  Remember Texas depending on wind generators, threatened with massive energy price spikes?  Expect the entire nations vehicles using electricity pushing up usage, and shortages beyond belief!  As usual, democrats again pushing America towards and off a high cliff, onto the rocks below, bankruptcy.  More Utopia 'answers' where the supposed 'cures' are far worse than the original problems.