Wall Street Journal: The goal is buried in a briefing paper released last month called “The Urban Mobility Scorecard Tool: Benchmarking the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility.” It points out that more than two-thirds of the world’s population will be urban by 2050. If we are to meet their needs and achieve the climate goals of the Paris Agreement, the report recommends “electrification, public transport and shared mobility.”
This will mean a lot fewer cars: “Reduce vehicles from a potential 2.1 billion to 0.5 billion.” That is a radical drop with fewer than 30 years to do it. But this, it says, “could slash emissions from passenger vehicles by 80% compared to a business-as-usual scenario—reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by 3.9 billion tons a year.”
World Economic Forum’s May 2023 Global New Mobility Coalition ‘briefing paper’ “in collaboration with Visa” – The forward was co-written by Douglas Sabo, the Chief Sustainability Officer with Visa and the WEF’s Jeff Merritt who is the “Head of Urban Transformation” at WEF.
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Marc Morano comments: “The Great Car Reset has arrived. Our transportation system is being intentionally collapsed; (and our freedom of movement is being stripped away) EVs to be forced upon YOU without a vote! This is the planned rationing of vehicles. An Australian bank is announcing it’s not going to give financing for loans to anyone buying a gas-powered car. The World Bank has now announced it wants to set a timetable to stop the funding for gas-powered cars. Gas station bans will create gas availability shortages. See:Gas Station Bans Next on Climate Agenda: Colorado city BANS new gas stations due to ‘obligation’ to tackle ‘climate change’ – Follows California cities)& All the while, China is laughing at us. See: (Net Zero’s Global Winner is — China! ‘US hasn’t noticed yet that China-Made cars are taking over the world’ – Poised to become No. 2 exporter of cars, surpassing US & S. Korea)
By: Marc Morano – Climate DepotJune 15, 2023 8:00 AM
If the World Economic Forum (WEF) has its way, the number of cars around the world will be reduced by 75% by 2050. How ironic that the denizens of Davos who spend much of their lives being chauffeured back and forth from international conferences hate cars.
The goal is buried in a briefing paper released last month called “The Urban Mobility Scorecard Tool: Benchmarking the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility.” It points out that more than two-thirds of the world’s population will be urban by 2050. If we are to meet their needs and achieve the climate goals of the Paris Agreement, the report recommends “electrification, public transport and shared mobility.”
This will mean a lot fewer cars: “Reduce vehicles from a potential 2.1 billion to 0.5 billion.” That is a radical drop with fewer than 30 years to do it. But this, it says, “could slash emissions from passenger vehicles by 80% compared to a business-as-usual scenario—reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by 3.9 billion tons a year.”
World Economic Forum’s May 2023 Global New Mobility Coalition ‘briefing paper’ “in collaboration with Visa” – The forward was co-written by Douglas Sabo, the Chief Sustainability Officer with Visa and the WEF’s Jeff Merritt who is the “Head of Urban Transformation” at WEF.
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Background:
Watch: Morano explains the electric car mandate folly
Great Car Reset is working! ‘Cars soon unaffordable for 50% of Germans’
CNN: The US Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to release strict new proposed federal emissions standards for light-duty vehicles that, if implemented, would move the US car market decisively toward electric vehicles over the next decade. The EPA is considering emissions standards that could make up to two-thirds of new passenger vehicles sold in the US electric by 2032, according to a source familiar with the proposal. If implemented, the new greenhouse gas performance standards would start for light-duty vehicles that are model year 2027 and gradually increase through model year 2032. By 2032, the rules would ensure that 64% to 67% of all new-car sales in the US would be electric vehicles, according to the source
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The Great Car Reset has arrived: Our transportation system is being intentionally collapsed; (and our freedom of movement is being stripped away) EVs to be forced upon YOU without a vote!
Marc Morano: “This is the planned rationing of vehicles. The planned rationing of American cars. That’s the only way this plan makes sense … the only result is going to be shortages of cars and a completely altered used car market. You can look to Cuba to find out what it’s like to have a raging used car market because that’s what we’re looking at here. And you can look to old East Germany. East Germany had their famed Trabant car, where people would have to get on waiting lists for years to get one and that’s what we’re faced with here when the government is going to mandate you can only buy a new electric car. … An Australian bank is announcing it’s not going to give financing for loans to anyone buying a gas-powered car. The World Bank has now announced it wants to set a timetable to stop the funding for — even at the automaker level for gas-powered cars. The powers that be, the corporate world, the bankers, the governments, academia — they’ve decided that gas-powered cars are over and they’re putting all the forces into play to end it without our say in it.
And if you somehow avoid the gas car bans, they will make obtaining gas for it a nightmare! See:Gas Station Bans Next on Climate Agenda: Colorado city BANS new gas stations due to ‘obligation’ to tackle ‘climate change’ – Follows California cities)& All the while, China is laughing at us. See: (Net Zero’s Global Winner is — China! ‘US hasn’t noticed yet that China-Made cars are taking over the world’ – Poised to become No. 2 exporter of cars, surpassing US & S. Korea)
Morano excerpt: “This is mandating car shortages for Americans…with the design of forcing more people into public transit. You will go nowhere and be happy. … Once we don’t have the freedom of movement in America that we have grown accustomed to, they will be able to put all sorts of other mandates on you as well. They are making gas-powered cars statutorily extinct…creating radical chaos and car shortages.” …
Biden’s EPA Chief Micheal Regan: “Together, today’s actions will accelerate our ongoing transition to a clean vehicles future, tackle the climate crisis head on…”
Morano: “It is easier to transition your gender than it is your energy, particularly on the energy timescales they’re talking about. So if you think it’s impossible for a man to have a baby, well, then it’s equally impossible to have solar and wind power our entire economy. That’s the kind of delusion we’re living in right now.”
American Energy Alliance “Today, less than 6% of cars are electric, despite years of generous tax credits…The EPA rule is an attempt to accelerate the number of electric vehicle sales to 67% by 2032.”
Alliance for Automotive Innovation CEO John Bozzella said Monday in a blog post the “EPA should ease up and reassess this rule before it helps cement China’s place in the U.S. auto market.” He predicted that if the EPA regulations are too tough, China will gain “a stronger foothold in America’s electric vehicle battery supply chain and eventually our automotive market.”
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Business Insider: After years of preparation, Chinese car companies are poised to upend the US electric-vehicle market.
Auto Blog: If the battery is the key to an EV future, China’s got a lock on it
CNN – January 25, 2023: Green Britain: UK car production collapses to lowest for 66 years
Business Insider: After years of preparation, Chinese car companies are poised to upend the US electric-vehicle market.
Auto Blog: If the battery is the key to an EV future, China’s got a lock on it
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The 38th edition of the World Mining Data report, published annually by the Austrian government, finds that mining production is not meeting the hopes of governments working to increase their own domestic and friendly sources of minerals. Rather, production has roughly plateaued, with the sector yet to match the peak production of 18 billion metric tons achieved in 2019. Far from growing our outputs, we’re struggling to maintain them.
The WEF really wants a society with sedan chairs.
As soon as they mandated a move away from a (reasonably) plentiful fuel supply to less plentiful materials for the batteries, this reduction was on the cards. Fewer cars, less road congestion and maintenance, less road deaths, less choice, less freedom, less everything.
The WEF really wants a society with 75% fewer people, most of whom are serfs.
How about WE start with the transport that those of the WEF and UN etc.and remove THEIR transport first?Sounds fair to me.
Who is ultimately behind this I wonder?
Ford’s CEO says the lack of greater EV sales is caused by the poor charging network. Ha! I beg to differ.
I’m curious where the electricity to power these cars come from….
Cut out 80% of the cars and you have a smaller problem to deal with.
You could say I’m on the front line with the impending ULEZ coming to my area – outside the south circular road.
To think I can remember when driving was fun. They hate fun – the employment of time in a profit-less and non practical way
Marc Morano is mostly right. The rationing of personal car use in big cities like London has been underway for many years now. It IS necessary in some way unless everybody wants to feel like they are living in Bangkok without the happy endings.
It is a real problem when so many humans live in such densely-packed cities with inadequate transport of any kind, even the rich. (You’ll have to be rich enough to bribe your way into the helicopter club).
The real issues arise when do-goody politicians want to transfer big-city solutions to everyone else in the world. They want to have humans living without personal transport options of any and every kind that is not approved them.
well, yeah. otherwise the riffraff will just abandon their rat cages. so we need to make rural folk suffer too
Shove more and more people into a smaller and smaller area, control the rural landscape and enforce a lockdown within the urban area. A very disturbing dystopian future (or not so distant now).
We have had a congestion charge zone in central London wheereysince the eighties it was obvious that you would need to be brain damaged to want to drive as. A car in central London the present ban comprises all the suburbs with about 20 million people losing travel functionality. The agenda is of course control. It may well be worse in Eastasia and Eurasia but Ingsoc will make it bloody awful for us in Airstrip 1
Good time for rats though
“It points out that more than two-thirds of the world’s population will be urban by 2050. If we are to meet their needs
and achieve the climate goals of the Paris Agreement, the report recommends “electrification, public transport and shared mobility.”” (Emphasis and strikethrough mine)Fine. Meet the needs of the urban population. But this obsession with “climate goals” is destructive.
Get a grip. CO2 from beneficial use of natural hydrocarbons as fuel is not capable of causing heat energy to accumulate down here on land and in the oceans to harmful effect.
Watch from space to grasp this point, and lose the fear of what non-condensing GHGs do in the atmosphere.
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G16&band=16&length=12
More explanation here.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/09/climate-models-have-not-exaggerated-global-warming-except-when-they-do/#comment-3513911
leftists believe that what they say or want is reality – not what is actually real – and as Ayn Rand said – one can ignore reality but one can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality
This follows. Those made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.
The car companies will continue to make vehicles, but they will be owned by governments and operated by contractors. When you want to travel somewhere, you will make a request to the contractor, describing when, where, what, who, and why. The contractor will check with the govt AI, and they will assign you a travel itinerary, based on your need and any other characteristics the govt deems to be important.
And, of course, you will be billed for the trip based on your income and wealth.
In every way they’re creating a Mad Max scenario.
‘mad’ being the operative
mad max was a cop. they will still have the fuel to intercept you.
No, even Mad Max needs fossil fuels.
Oh god – can you imagine a Mad Max remake where they have to stop to recharge after a couple of hours!
better scenario …
The bad guy has the electric car & Mel Gibson, as the electric pulls away from him, just knowingly smiles and continues on at 80 mph. 200 miles later he slows as he passes the abandoned EV; At 200.7 miles he slows and bumps the exhausted bad guy off the road (and over the gaurdrail/cliff); he shows the same knowing smile as he does a U turn to head back home.
“‘Say goodbye to the US car market as we know it: Cheap Chinese EVs are coming’”
Cheap? How cheap? What some people consider cheap is a ton of money to many people. Let’s not forget that home prices are rising fast along with all energy, food, medical costs, etc. Driving people into poverty makes them angry and rebellious. This is not looking good for a peaceful society. Here in Woke-achusetts, you can’t find a house for under $300K that isn’t falling down. Property taxes are extremely high. I have a modest ranch house- the annual property tax is $6,000- peanuts for some people- a lot for someone living on social insecurity. Good thing we grow much of our own food on our large garden. Young families without at least one very high paying professional job- are screwed- priced out of homes, cars, insurance. If the educated professional classes don’t resist this climate religion, these younger families sure will- just to live. Their “betters” won’t mind- they can afford all this idiocy.
Large gardens are next on the list for elimination!
People packed tightly into limited spaces dependent on communal transportation and having no personal transformation – sounds like a plan for total control of the masses.
They will transport the useless masses to their final destination in boxcars, if I read the future they want.
No job either no children no dreams and bread and circuses rationed. Where’s my fentanyl
“”London taxpayers could face millions of pounds in losses after an electric vehicle company backed by Sadiq Khan collapsed into administration.
Sky News can reveal that the Mayor of London’s Energy Efficiency Fund (MEEF) injected more than £3m into Breathe, which provides EVs including Teslas to private-hire drivers.””
https://apple.news/AIYbb0V5QT6aDz_AUxqyv1g
Its stopped Breathing.
It is an ex-Parrot. Or whatever!
More precisely…
E’s passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! ‘E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, ‘e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed ‘im to the perch ‘e’d be pushing up the daisies! ‘Is metabolic processes are now ‘istory! ‘E’s off the twig! ‘E’s kicked the bucket, ‘e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!
‘E’s f#€$!n’ snuffed it!
The WEF has officially come out of the closet and ensconced itself in businesses and governments throughout the world. The WEF has even had official representatives in UN sponsored events for countries. “You’ll own nothing and be happy” is their mantra. People will quickly realize that the WEF goal isn’t to raise everyone’s lifestyle but rather reduce lifestyles to the lowest common denominator in the name of equality. They control corporations by blackmailing them into cooperation by threatening to withhold their operating capital. It’s a gang in a business suit.
You have it backwards. Corporations control the WEF. Supremacy of corporations over nation states is what they are after.
No way. Corporations do not control their working capital which is the cudgel the WEF uses to gain compliance. The WEF controls the major banking institutions that dole out the money to the Capitalists.
Point of clarification: What are the exemptions for limos, private jets, and yachts with seaside villas?
Oh you mean the essential business expenses? Obviously world leaders, business leaders and top-tier celebs must have certain items to facilitate their jobs, as well as making sure the riff-raff stay in their places.
I once called for public trials and executions of WEF members. I have reconsidered that position and realized that it is wrong. Now, I don’t care how they go as long as it is soon.
WEF forgot this. At the rate their regressive social policies are gripping U.S. cities, by 2050 there will be nobody left in stinkholes like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago or NYC except the poor, homeless, druggies or the insane. Of course, that is probably their intention all along. A feature, not a bug.
Build walls round them and turn them into prisons. Wasn’t there a documentary done about that a while ago? “Escape from New York” or “Los Angeles” it may have been?
The “El Sid” episode of Sliders
Reduce cars from a potential 2.1bn to 0.5bn “could reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by 3.9bn tons a year.”
Yet the IEA tell us that in 2022 75% of emissions came from the energy sector and amounted to 38.6bn tonnes of CO2 and that much of those emissions came from China, India and the rest of Asia where coal use is growing at pace.
Do the WEF publish their rubbish in Asia?
Chinese Yugos.
Can’t wait.
The Yankee love affair with automobiles may have cooled somewhat with generational culture change but in many ways it’s still evident. Commuters grouse about their agonizing trips to work and back but the reality is for most normal people employed in mundane, meaningless and soul-crushing jobs their highway adventures are the most exciting part of their day. No boss, no kids, listen to what they want on the radio, gossip on the phone with friends, a twice daily mini-vacation that includes some risk and the opportunity to anonymously get the advantage of total strangers. Public transport would put them in close proximity to unwashed creepy strangers, presently a big problem in Asia. Taking cars off the road would make millions truly unhappy and shouldn’t maximum happiness be a central goal of any form of government?
The elite like the CCP’s model of totalitarian control of information and markets. They are actively working with them to bring down the west and achieve global dominance and control over humanity. Destroying the US, their main rival and a traditional bastion of liberty is their primary objective.
Who wants to “reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere”? Sounds like a death-wish!
So he accepts responsibility for ULEZ but not Breathe? Sounds an extreme way to publicly demonstrate your support for diversity!
Bye Bye UAW. You won’t have to walk to work as there won’t be any.
It is also probably deliberate that if we only have electric cars, we will not have the electricity to charge them.