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2022-02-22 Home Front: Politix
GOP Sen. Thune: Biden Energy Policy Meant to Push People Out of ‘Fuel-Based Vehicles'
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Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-22 02:07|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

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Posted by Dron66046 2022-02-22 04:03||   2022-02-22 04:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Biden's Bolsheviks live in urban areas and have concept of transportation for access to food and sundries other than within their bubble.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-02-22 07:54||   2022-02-22 07:54|| Front Page Top

#3 ...have no concept
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-02-22 07:55||   2022-02-22 07:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Organize the truckers to strike and cut off heating oil and gas deliveries to the deep-blue cities. Raise CA's cost of electricity that's provided by other states.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-22 09:16||   2022-02-22 09:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Well. If there was ever a group poorly positioned to be pushed onto the front lines, it would be the truckers. They need so many chits and regulatory stamps of approval issued by the gummint that they are being asked by people with no skin in the game to commit sui@ide. You don't think the gummint will let lots of newly arriveds from Latin America and the ME take those jobs? Just watch. It's miraculous how the gummint can pull one guy's permits earned over a lifetime of honest work while waiving all the requirements for Mahound or Jose.

And if waivers of liability for vcaccines bug you, you are gonna love imported truck drivers who can't read signs in English or pass a pi$$ test getting carte blanche to cream motorists right and left.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-22 09:25||   2022-02-22 09:25|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ BLUF: The arugula and guac must flow. To the blue cities anyway...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-22 09:28||   2022-02-22 09:28|| Front Page Top

#7 ^5 The appropriate reaction of truckers might be to rigorously follow every i-dotting and t-crossing of the law. And then some. Observe all speed limits, and give yourself a 5 mph cushion. Etc. Especially on traffic to the most offensive urban enclaves. And not just long-haul truckers, but local and delivery as well. But the window of opportunity is not all that big - soon enough trucks will be driverless Google vehicles.
Posted by Glenmore 2022-02-22 12:53||   2022-02-22 12:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Raise CA's cost of electricity that's provided by other states.

Ouch, man they have already done that. It hurts! Take it easy, OK?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-02-22 13:19||   2022-02-22 13:19|| Front Page Top

#9  soon enough trucks will be driverless Google vehicles.

Like so many other things, the 5-10 years it’ll take to translate that from idea to widespread reality is infinitely expanding from the ever-moving present point in time. Even if they get automatic cars to work, delivery and tractor-trailer trucks with their much larger loads having larger inertia and momentum — meaning considerably greater danger to other vehicles should they wobble even slightly out of their designated path or miss cues for unexpected behaviour by other vehicles — will make programming the things infinitely more complex while requiring much quicker response time.

As for the fuel-based vehicles thingy, that’ll just increase the two-decade pattern of the middle class moving from blue cities and states to red suburbs where they can work from home and drive short distances to work in nearby suburbs rather than in city centers. The higher cost of gasoline doesn’t matter as much when the driver only needs half or less as much to work and shop. Trailing daughter #2 has put 42,000 miles on her car, acquired new in 2013; her company policy will have her going in to the office only for meetings even after Covid ends, while her husband, an accountant, will continue working entirely from home — they’re talking about giving up his car completely, and Mr. Wife is talking about trailing daughter #1 and I giving up one of ours as unncessary.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-02-22 13:42||   2022-02-22 13:42|| Front Page Top

#10 The ability to hack driverless trucks will make hijacking a whole new ballgame.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-22 13:47||   2022-02-22 13:47|| Front Page Top

#11 From American Affairs Journal, with a hattip to lotp - worth taking the time to read the whole thing:

Exurbia Rising

Perhaps nowhere is the gap between America’s cognitive elite and its populace larger than in their preferred urban forms. For nearly a century—interrupted only by the Depression and the Second World War—Americans have been heading further from the urban core, seeking affordable and safe communities with good schools, parks, and a generally more tranquil lifestyle. We keep pushing out despite the contrary desires of planners, academic experts, and some real estate interests. In 1950, the core cities accounted for nearly 24 percent of the U.S. population; today, the share is under 15 percent, according to demographer Wendell Cox. Between 2010 and 2020, the suburbs and exurbs of the major metropolitan areas gained 2.0 million net domestic migrants, while the urban core counties lost 2.7 million.2

This is less a growth in “bedroom suburbs,” supplying workers to the urban core, but one that serves multiple employment centers and commercial development.3 The latest edition of Commuting in America estimates that almost 70 percent of metropolitan-area workers now live and work in the suburbs; trips within suburbs or suburb-to-suburb commutes constitute more than double the commutes with a central business district as the final destination.4...

The Pandemic Effects
The pandemic clearly hastened the shift to the periphery. Despite the disease’s relentless spread, the greatest concentrations of Covid fatalities have tended to be in dense urban areas. Much of this has to do not with population concentration per se but with the inevitable “exposure density” among those forced to take public transit, live in crowded apartments, and take elevators to work.22

These concerns are behind what Zillow calls “the great re-shuffling” toward suburbs, the Sunbelt, and smaller cities. Between 2019 and 2021, preference for larger homes in less dense areas grew from 53 percent to 60 percent, according to the Pew Research Center.23 During the pan­demic year alone, construction in exurbs increased 20 percent, faster than other geographies. Both prices and the rate of building have risen the fastest in exurbia, with price increases twice the national average, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.24

Planned communities have done particularly well; the fifty largest exceeded expectations in the first half of 2021 and are experiencing growth of 20 to 40 percent annually. Robert Schottenstein, CEO of Columbus-based M/I Homes, Inc., a builder with fifteen projects in the Midwest, Southeast, and Texas, explains, “This is a flight to safety and security. The millennials are getting older, and they are transitioning as they start families.”25

Posted by trailing wife 2022-02-22 14:03||   2022-02-22 14:03|| Front Page Top

#12 A couple years after I moved here, a small group got all hot n bothered about trying to establish an HOA type carbuncle. They were run off right quick.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-22 14:12||   2022-02-22 14:12|| Front Page Top

#13 The graphic sez it all, and it's not as if the Dems have been silent on this.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-02-22 14:13||   2022-02-22 14:13|| Front Page Top

#14 They had big plans to wreck the suburbs, but various bright shiny things (BLM, CRT, COVID, Ukraine) caused them to take their eye off the ball. Now it's time to make them pay.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-22 14:15||   2022-02-22 14:15|| Front Page Top

#15 Interesting TW. Me and the wife are looking for a house in Texas (from Washington State). Looking at some of those planned communities around Fort Worth. After having a noisy neighbour here those HOA's don't sound so bad... I'll be working semi-remote and attached to the company's Austin Office. Going in about once every 6 months or so.
Wife is asking 'Why not live in or around Austin?'.
Posted by CrazyFool 2022-02-22 14:25||   2022-02-22 14:25|| Front Page Top

#16 /\ Check out Fredericksburg, 80 miles to the West of Austin.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-22 14:31||   2022-02-22 14:31|| Front Page Top

#17 tw, just to expand on your #9 and #11, I am reminded of the old saying that nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it. The power grid, which I have some very basic knowledge of, is a good example. Politicians with no relevant experience legislate "green" power; which causes the folks who have actually been running power generating stations for 20 years (or managing the grid) to reach for the Wild Turkey. Optimist though I am, I fear that this summer will bring power outages on a scale that is going to to cause real suffering. Regards to lotp.
Posted by Matt 2022-02-22 14:34||   2022-02-22 14:34|| Front Page Top

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