Pete Buttigieg Has Some Ideas for Overhauling How America Moves Around

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Pete Buttigieg on the climate crisis, electric vehicles, and bringing sexy back to transportation policy

. Buttigieg is confident in both the administration’s ability to come to terms with conservatives and in his department’s ability to reimagine how America moves itself around.

The other thing we’ve got to do is be relentlessly focused on job creation here, because what we’re also talking about when we’re talking about infrastructure is the economic strength of the United States, and that should be a bipartisan priority, especially if we’re considering, frankly, our slipping competitiveness with regard to a lot of countries that have not hesitated to make big infrastructure investments.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine put out a budget proposal that cuts Ohio’s public transportation fund by 90 percent, which is a reminder that a lot of these key decisions are going to be made on state and local levels. How can the DOT affect change there, especially considering some of the budgetary constraints resulting from the pandemic?

I can tell you that we’re going to be looking for more, not less, climate ambition. The real balance is how much do we concentrate on the tailpipe issue versus supporting the development of EVs [electric vehicles] across the board? Government has a tendency to focus on limiting or proscribing what we don’t want. Sometimes you’ve got to do that, that’s what regulation is about. But it’s just as important to support what we do want.

A unique aspect to your new role is the amount of name recognition you have and the amount of attention that stands to bring to a department that doesn’t typically get a lot of it. To what extent is taking advantage of this part of your thinking?

 

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All the Democrat boots licked clean and shiny by the media.

I just gagged.

Cringe.

I see you folks are still lunatic hacks

So we pay for our car and every vehicle that is used to ship goods? What a great plan, so creative going with a new tax. Sounds like a great way to stimulate the economy...Inflation BusinessesDontPayTaxes

State media is somethin else, isn’t it?

How are they going to implement such a policy? I’m buying a 1985 Chevy without computers; suck my balls Buttigiegboy I drive 2 miles per year on public roads

Taxing people that have to commute to work because living in the city is too expensive is so sexy. 🤡

This is sad. Even for you guys. Yikes.

Yes he brought dick sucking a long way...

You're calling a tax that will hit low-income people harder 'sexy'? WTF, guys?

For the love of god, get some friends rolling stone.

More global warming = less viruses. Climate change is good!

kurtbardella SecretaryPete Please do something to stop USPS & Louis DeJoy from buying a Fleet of Gas Powered Mail Delivery Vehicles for Post Offices. They should all be Green Energy Vehicles. Thank you. RT

kurtbardella I don’t care about your need for clicks. I only care about the fact that he’s right.

kurtbardella Don't care if it's sexy, we just need to make sure it gets done and meets and exceeds the needs of Americans.

kurtbardella Surviving and thriving on this Beautiful Blue Marble we all share? Yeah, that's pretty darn sexy.

Who writes this drivel? ' bringing sexy back' WTF ? GUAB!

He’s an actual walking platitude machine

Love PeteButtigieg - a future POTUS we hope 🤘🏼👏🏼🙏🏼

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