UK Inches Closer To Eliminating Private Car Ownership
UK Government Transport Minister Trudy Harrison recently spoke at a mobility conference, addressing the future of personal mobility, particularly private car ownership.
In her comments, she said it was necessary to ditch the “20th-century thinking centred around private vehicle ownership and towards greater flexibility, with personal choice and low carbon shared transport.”
That’s right, she said the quiet part loud and showed the hand of a growing number of government officials.
Harrison went on to praise not only public transportation but also bike share services, e-scooters, and ride sharing platforms.
All of these are supposed to tune down how much carbon dioxide the UK is emitting into the atmosphere.
As with all choices, this comes at a cost, particularly for those living in rural areas.
What’s more, 300 residents in Coventry recently expressed interest in giving up their personal cars.
The tradeoff from the government reportedly would be a mobility credit worth up to £3,000. This mobility credit program has been going since March of this year, with 73 cars turned in and crushed.
No, this isn’t a joke, but I wish it were.
Understandably, many Brits are upset about this.
Some have asked if they should start riding their horse instead, all the in the name of “progress.”
Others are tying this statement by Harrison with the looming government ban of internal combustion engines for cars by 2030.
After all, EVs aren’t exactly cheap, so what better way to force people onto public transportation than by making cars so expensive to buy and run they become unaffordable?
I’ve been calling out the elitist plan in some government circles to eliminate the private ownership of cars for some time.
For many, the possibility that such a thing could be real leads to their minds lashing out at the source of such news, and so I’ve been called a “crazy conspiracy theorist” among other things for trying to shed light on this disturbing topic.
Well, time has vindicated my stance and people in the UK are starting to wake up to the very real possibility they would be completely dependent on the government to be taken anywhere.
If you think this plan is limited to just the UK, you haven’t been paying attention.
There have been other efforts to make private vehicle ownership a thing of the past, including a new measure in Southern California.
The 2021 Regional Transportation Plan passed recently by the San Diego Association of Government’s board of directors is a $160 billion initiative just for the metropolitan area to boost public transportation.
That’s a hefty price tag for such a small area, so one of the ways officials have been planning to fund it is by levying a per-mile driving tax against citizens.
That was such an unpopular move it was shelved, for now. But I have a funny feeling that driving tax is going to be revisited.
Critics say that and other fines, fees, etc. are designed to nuke personal vehicle ownership for all but the wealthy.
Expect to see similar measures in other cities and maybe entire states/territories in North America and beyond in the near future.
As unpleasant as politics are, if car enthusiasts and really everyone who enjoys going where they please when they please in their privately-owned vehicle don’t start taking a stand, our freedoms could be severely restricted in ways many have thought weren’t possible.
Failing to do something to stop this push will end poorly for just about everyone.
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very old white guy
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we really need to eliminate politicians.
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Greg Spinolae
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“… our freedoms could be severely restricted in ways many have thought weren’t POSSIBLE.”
No, NEVER. Never would our beloved government DO THAT. SURELY Not.
Never would a government restrict freedoms unless it was
“for our own good, to keep us safe”.
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Geraint Hughes
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Simple really. Not going to happen. I own my car outright so do millions of others, what they going to do confiscate them?
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Saighdear
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Confiscate them ? no, just do the same as is happening recently with OIl-fired Ranges: get the manufacturers on side to reduce spares availability, concoct regulations on emissions and soon job’s a good’un.. Same goes now for use of rebated “red” diesel from APRIL 2022…. to include Generators and Construction Plant + more. who discussed and voted for that all ?
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Mervyn
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Margaret Thatcher will be turning in her grave hearing such nonsense uttered by UK Government Transport Minister Trudy Harrison, a member of the Conservative Party which is supposed to be championing freedom, democracy, the free market, and prosperity, rather than championing something akin to the ambitious, arrogant and unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.
What is happening to the Conservative Party? Have its members become “wets”? Have they lost their sense of direction? How dare this woman even mention something straight out of the world of Marxism-socialism.
Sack the woman immediately.
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Kevin Doyle
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The foolish Brits fought the totalitarian Nazis in the Second World War.
Now, the Brits welcome them home in Parliament, and laud them with good cheer, as the BBC sings the praises of the Totalitarians in the name of ‘Preserving Mother Earth’ from the scourge of a benign gas, CO2.
Unfortunately, these morons have no understanding of basic Thermodynamics. They cannot comprehend that any gas in our atmosphere (i.e. – hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, CO2, H2O, methane, Kryptonite, etc.) cannot heat the surface of the planet. Only the Sun can do that.
Atmospheres are not ‘Greenhouses’, on the contrary, they are ‘chimneys’. Warm goes up, and cold comes down.
Atmospheres, such as ours keep the surface cooler and more moderate. The Moon, with no atmosphere gets much warmer and much colder than Earth. To be fair and accurate, the Moon has a daytime which lasts 29.5 days on Earth, and a nighttime which equals the same.
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