Nothing about the transportation net zero push to Electric Vehicles adds up, which has had us suggesting their ulterior motives. No cars for the little people forced pedestrianism, and now the WEF is pushing scooters (ideal for their 15-minute cities).
Not a whit of which will by your choice. And it all starts with recent rumblings about city parking.
It turns out that the WEF has found a new enemy: parking spaces. You see, parking spaces slow down the climate progress and “hold back urban mobility.”
The thrust of this idiocy is that (cities) are wasting resources and real estate by adding parking spaces that should be used for things like bike or scooter ride sharing or electric vehicle charging stations (or idols to WEF leadership?). But according to details provided by Igor Chudov on his substack, innovative city experiments with fewer parking spaces resulted in businesses leaving. Fewer jobs, fewer opportunities. Chudov, who also lived in a 15-minute city for over twenty years (Moscow!), says (reformatted),
I used public transportation and walked to stores and school instead of driving. I had no other choice. People lived in small apartments due to the urban density needed to allow stores to be located within walking distance. The upside is that almost everyone was thin there, although people were far from healthy for many reasons. The downside is that it was majorly inconvenient and limiting compared to my life in the USA, as I discovered after I moved.
First, yes, urban density living is indeed (if you had doubts) an inherently Marxist/centrally planned solution, and second, it is based on their choices, not yours. Chudov adds that the push for less parking includes calls for more ride-sharing and … scooters. My first thought was that if you made large college campuses untraversable for the handicapped and said, shut up and use a scooter, it would be ableist—less mobility for the mobility impaired.
It is also, along the same vein, body shaming. Forcing people to walk, bicycle, or scooter – even if some of them are electric – will involve a good deal more cardio than resting your fat ass in an EV, which – if you’ve been following – won’t belong to you. You’ll be getting in and out of someone else’s Lyft or Uber/EV (or whoever the state-sanctioned, party-approved vendor happens to be) as defined by the limited mobility Tsars).
If these modes are too tiny for you to squeeze your white colonialist ass into in the first place, take a walk – especially where winter means snow and scooters are useless. Or, stay inside and watch MSNBC. Order takeout – but remember that those choices affect your social credit score.
So, yeah, this is a nod to the idea that the ultimate end to the EV conversion plan (as we’ve been saying) is no cars for you because the people at the very top of the ideological food chain (handing buckets of narrative water out to for the useful idiots to carry) know there isn’t enough material or time for any of this foolishness.
Never was – and that’s the point. EVs equal forced urban density and walkability, even if you can’t walk.
And if you think the ruling class that can’t party without private air travel intends to give up their cars, that’s not happening. But making it too expensive to live in a rural location or to use any but the approved modes of transportation – that will happen if you let it.
[From 210-2020] urban areas have grown denser, changing from an average population density of 2,343 in 2010 to 2,553 in 2020. Additionally, 225 urban areas qualify based on the 2020 housing unit threshold that would not have qualified based on the new population threshold alone. …
Of the nation’s four census regions, the West Region remains the most urban, with 88.9% of its population residing within an urban area, followed by the Northeast Region, at 84.0%. The South and Midwest regions continue to have lower percentages of population living in urban areas than the nation, with rates of 75.8% and 74.3%, respectively.
Most of America by population (about 80%) is already in or near these urban plantations. That leaves 20% living rural, and disenfranchising you doesn’t concern the elites at all. What is a problem is that 91% of US households have at least one car or truck. The plan is to make them unaffordable and, in some places, illegal to buy or even own – in just over a decade – which can’t be done even if we had the raw material and ignored the harm that mining and processing, and manufacturing will do to the people and planet they claim to champion.
And again, the elites don’t care. They will say whatever they think will get them from here to there, and, ideally, which suggests that the goal for 2035 is not an EV in every driveway. It is a legal means to silence questions and dissent so they can say “we” sacrificed and did it, and no one can be the wiser.
They will report lower CO2 (which won’t be true) and a better, safer world (between non-stop acts of information terrorism), which you can access on your digital tracking device while in line to get your ration of bread and a can of beans.