Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appointed an Obama-era group made up of 24 “leading experts” to advise him on “transportation equity,” claiming the privilege of owning a car ignites “systemic racism” and should be banned because of their negative impact on the environment.
Members of the Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity include “spatial policy scholar” Andrea Marpillero-Colomina, who says, “All cars are bad” and calls for “zero emission transit.”
However, she told the Free Beacon that she is not “advocating for a complete erasure” of cars but hopes to convince Buttigieg to re-direct the U.S. from relying on private motor vehicles.
So Veronica Davis who “also claimed cars are the “problem” and divide communities because, according to her, vehicles are a “status symbol” that only privileged white people own” thinks the solution is to prevent anyone other than the elite (aka: another group of priviledged people) to own cars as a status symbol. Rigggghtttt…
….looks around at my highly brown populated community all whom have cars and most worth more than mine…
You just can’t make up this s$it.
They don’t ban anything. They just make it financially impractical or odious to own the target item. It is sophistry all the way down
Driving used to be fun.
My insurance just went up another $30 a month even though my car is worth less and my record is clean.
All it will take is a hurricane in the gulf and gas will shoot up.
24 leading experts? Not the 240 million car owners?
…she is not “advocating for a complete erasure” of cars because she still wants to drive hers, or at least be chauffered hither and yon.
Given the potential costs of banning all these things, wouldn’t it be cheaper to simply ban the banners AKA fascist green shirts.
I don’t want to say these people should be put to death … because that’s violent and crazy. But perhaps they all need to go paddle boarding in the Obama slough ?
Transportation EQUITY.. What a insane can of worms that is.. I am not compelled to even try and stop such a stupid idea.. As the leftists like to say.. LET IT BURN..
When I was a 17 yo kid … saving every dime I made ($1.90/hr. less than minimum wage) … down at Tom Terry’s EXXON station … for a beat-up POS VW bug … I would have sure embraced “transportation equity” … that would have promised me the 1974 Triumph TR 6 that I REALLY wanted.
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The TR 6 was a sturdy rig. My first was an MG TD. A few years later, I bought a Healey 3000. Fun times!
I only ever bought American. The Brit cars of the era were crap.
I’ve owned Pontiacs, Chevrolets and Chryslers. The Pontiac (Sunbird) was okay. The rest were crap. The two MGBs I owned give me great memories of driving fun. I now drive an Nissan Altima and a Honda CRV. GM cars suck in comparison.
I had a lot Fords, not a bad one in the group, hundreds of thousands of miles with regular service of things that always wear out. In 1995 I started buying Hyundai, have had eight since then, only one was a problem, my wife did not like the visual aspect, she had difficulty seeing some areas when driving. We only kept it one year.
I have driven well over six million miles.
One of the things you learn in the old car hobby is that -all- cars were crap until about the mid-to-late 1980s.
Admittedly there are very few surviving 1960s Brit cars in Canada, thanks to road salt. Nothing disintegrates a car faster.
And when you understand that, it makes you understand Canada a little better. We are the IDIOTS who keep voting for governments that actively destroy our very expensive cars and very expensive transportation infrastructure with corrosive road salt.
Just another symptom of pervasive stupidity, really.
It is not safe to go anywhere in America without the security of a car around you.
Public transit is for victims.
Walking is for losers .. also victims.
“claiming the privilege of owning a car ignites “systemic racism” ”
Around here, ALL races own and drive cars. A lot of people have much nicer and more expensive cars than I do. The “white” people (WEF, etc.) sure don’t get out much and look around at real everyday life.
I hope the “leading experts” are as qualified as Buttigieg. (And yes, I’m being sarcastic.)
Ms M-C obviously lives in a major urban centre with excellent public transit/taxis/other options. She needs to be shipped off to a place not so “blessed” with transit options and left to figure out how to get around.
It is interesting that the very dictatorial Mayor of London is getting serious push-back on his “ULTZ” zones as he’s moving them into London’s outer suburbs which are not that well served by public transit.
As an aside, at one point I wouldn’t take the local transit downtown as the park next to the station was attracting too many people just hanging around and the station itself was a centre for drug dealing. A couple of stabbings later, it seems to have been cleaned up, but I’m still wary. Do feel for the staff at the care centre down the hill who have to use that station to get to and from work. Their path through the park is not that well lit either, despite the ONE recommendation the whole community had when changes were being made to the park was to seriously light that path. Obviously, our alder-bitch didn’t see the necessity.
I don’t think this rhetoric bodes well for the 118 thousand dollar Lightnings piling up on the local Ford dealer’s lot.
But then again the whole point might be to bankrupt the buyer, the dealer, and Ford too for that matter. What can you do with too much debt other than default?
Ford has already lost over 4.5 billion on the electric idiocy.
It’s Pete “Bootyjuice” according to Biden.
Or … gaping Pete … as he’s known to his butties
Please, Sounders image was too much; you’ve pushed it over the edge, Kenji. Yeuch.
I thought it was Pete Buttplug
If you want transportation equity, you either have to give every citizen a private jet and a limousine or take away the private jets and the limousines from the rich.
Then everyone, E.V.E.R.Y.O.N.E. flies business class and gets a car randomly drawn from a pool of $40,000 to $50,000 cars purchased in equal numbers from the various automakers.
That is transportation equity, pure and simple. Everyone converges on the average. Anything else is just blowing smoke up yer wazoo.
If you think about it, not a whole heck of a lot of people actually want transportation equity other than the lowest on the income scale. They are perfectly fine with the way things are now, so don’t screw with it TSINO (Transportation Secretary In Name Only). Just get back to your chest feeding and make sure the Interstate highways are plowed in Winter and the potholes are filled. Ummm… you might have someone check on the bridges, Mayor Pete. I hear some of them are a tad shaky.
I was looking at a new Hyundai Elantra the other day while my Tucson was in for service. 22,000 plus tax. Well equipped, a nice medium sized sedan.
These people are all bat shit crazy. They shouldn’t be allowed to operate a french fry cooker in a fast food restaurant let along decide policies for a nation. What imbeciles.
The central planning mentality in the west has dreamed of getting the serfs out of their cars for the last 60 years. It took the green theocracy of climate hysteria along with the post modern nihilism of CRT to give them the psychological ammunition to bring it to fruition. It would be interesting to see what percent of LPC, NDP, and Greens support it. I’m guessing around 60%, 70%, and 80% respectively.
Lotsa pimped out Escalades in the ‘hood. Jus’ sayin’.
When I’m president, anyone with hyphenated last names will be first against the wall. Or dropped from helicopters.
That is so gay.
People with cars don’t do as they’re told. That’s why they want them banned.
Does this give anyone a big, fat clue? We MUST elect a non-democrat president in 2024.
Our society hangs in the balance.
None of them lead by example. Save some jet fuel and trebuchet them back where they came from.
Maybe Butter Legs should be made to Walk across America from Coast to Coast without any rides this Idiot will have us back to Horse and Buggy and all that Manure which he is full of