The Coming “Post-Car Era”

Guest Post by Eric Peters

It’s not just the government that’s banning cars – or making it hard to own a car. Private developers are working toward the same thing  – styled the “attrition of the automobile” in urban planning circles.

One of these developers – Culdesac – is erecting a specifically car-attrited stack-a-prole apartment complex in Tempe, AZ. There are no parking spaces or even places nearby to park a car. The whole point of the operation – in the words of Culdesac’s visionaries – is to build “housing” for the “post-car era.”

Which would be fine if it were a natural evolution. Some people either don’t like or don’t feel the need for cars – or for the personal space/independent ownership a single family home provides – and like the idea of being able to walk or bicycle to and fro.

Such people choose to live in cities – and apartments.

Fine.

What’s not fine is forcing people who don’t want to live in cities – or stack-a-prole apartment complexes – into the “post-car era.” Which is what this is all about.

Culdesac isn’t banning cars, per se.

It hasn’t got the power to do that – or to force anyone to move into one of its 636 stack-a-prole apartments in Tempe. But it is anticipating an artificially created demand for such stack-a-prole housing, as more and more people are forced into cities and stack-a-prole “housing” by government-corporate policies designed to make owning a car (as well as a single family home) onerous – and driving one unpleasant.

Italicized to emphasize that it is intentional. Government/corporate elites (it amounts to the same thing) dislike the autonomy that is a function of personal mobility.

This isn’t an interpretation; it’s a fact. The War on Cars – which is really a War on Personal Mobility – has been under way for at least 50 years now.

The first salvos were fired in the form of exhaust emissions standards, which had the sheen of legitimacy and reasonableness because at that time (the 1960s) the air in some areas was smoggy and motor vehicle exhaust emissions were contributing to it. But that problem was solved 30 years ago – in the 1990s – which left a need for new ammunition to use against the car and the people driving it.

“Fuel economy” was loaded into the breech – justified on the basis of supposedly imminent fuel scarcity and thus a need to “conserve” the dwindling supply. But this wasn’t even a problem – ever. The “scarcity” bogey was never real; it was the result of political machinations by OPEC – the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries – which turned off the spigot to punish Uncle for his policies in the Middle East.

But the lie about scarcity sold for decades – until the accession of the Orange Man, who turned on the domestic spigots. It is now plain to everyone who cares to look into it that there is so much oil – right here – that government fuel-efficiency fatwas premised on scarcity are vaporous.

Which is why vapor – carbon dioxide – has become the latest weapon deployed against the car and personal mobility.

It will also be used against the electric car, by the way. Once the electric car has done away with other cars. It will then be discovered (though it is already known) that electric cars also produce the dreaded vapor – just indirectly – and since the source of the vapor is immaterial, if you accept the assertion that the “climate” is in “crisis” because of it – it will suddenly become necessary to make electric cars more onerous and expensive to own, in order to reduce the number of them owned. As well as driven.

This will be done by imposing heavy taxes on the electricity they burn (which requires the burning of various fossil fuels) or on the cars themselves, as by mileage taxation – or by rescinding the currently incentivizing kickbacks awarded to those who “buy” them.

Psychological war has also been waged upon the car. The first attempts – launched back in the ‘70s and into the ‘80s – failed miserably because the people then driving had grown up loving cars and the personal mobility a car gave them. Thus, the chorus deriding cars as “unsafe” didn’t sell.

Early efforts to make driving un-fun such as the 55 MPH National Maximum Speed Limit, automated seat belts (then air bags) were also met with contempt – as well as passive and active resistance – by most adults in the ‘70s and ‘80s.

Which is why their kids were targeted, beginning in the ’90s.

That generation – now ascending – never knew the freedom of mobility cars gave their parents and older brothers and sisters – because they were never allowed to experience it. They were conditioned almost from conception to dislike even being in a car – via the expedient of laws requiring them to be be caged inside the car from earliest memory to near-adolescence.

Thus, by the time they approached being old enough to drive themselves, they didn’t want to drive. It is not hard to understand why so many of them – about a third of those in the 16-25 age bracket – don’t even have a driver’s license.

Many say that they have no intention of getting one, ever.

They are ready to willingly move into the stack-a-prole “housing” envisioned by developers like Culdesac, which quite openly states its long-term goal: “To remake cities all over the U.S. for people, not cars.”     

But it won’t be just cities. It will be everywhere.

Electric cars will make it very difficult to live far from a city – far from work – due not so much to the shorter range of the EV but rather because of the time it takes to recharge an EV and the limitations on mobility and autonomy that imposes.

The prohibitive cost of the EV itself will make outside-the-cul-de-sac living all-but-impossible for most people – once the full (true) cost of the EV is draped around the shoulders of the public.

All of this to further the goal to achieve a “car free” America by 2030. Which will mean a mobility-free America. Or at least, an America in which the mobility of the masses – which is you and I – is defined by how far we can walk – or pedal – in a day.

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SmallerGovNow

Inconvenient FACTS…

#1 CO2 is not the primary greenhouse gas. Water vapor is and contributes 90% of the greenhouse effect.

#2 CO2 is plant food. Without it plants die, animals die, and humans die.

#3 Our current geological period (Quaternary) has the lowest average CO2 levels in the history of the planet.

#4 More CO2 equals more plant growth. Greenhouses pump CO2 in to increase production and there have been thousands of peer reviewed experiments that prove that doubling the CO2 concentration increases crop yields by 45%.

#5 More CO2 means moister soil. Pores on the bottom of plants leaves open to absorb CO2. With higher CO2 concentrations the pores remain open a shorter amount of time which reduces evaporation from the leaves. This results in requiring less water for plants to grow when there is more CO2 in the atmosphere.

Chip

ILuvCO2
ILuvCO2

YUP!!

SmallerGovNow

Everyone is for clean air, clean water, and not polluting our land. But to “climate scientists” it’s ONLY about CO2 (which we know is plant food). So that tells me they don’t give a sheet about the environment, only about their ability to tax carbon… Chip

SmallerGovNow

CO2 is plant food. Without it we all die. 400ppm concentration is low historically. And many plant specie thrive at over 1,000 ppm. Greenhouses pump CO2 inside to increase production. CO2 is NOT the problem and neither are CO2 emissions. It’s a convenient scapegoat for a massive global tax scheme because like air, everyone needs the energy and by products that “fossil fuels” provide… Chip

SmallerGovNow

“Fossil fuels” is in quotes because oil is NOT from fossils (see abiotic oil). But that’s a discussion for another day… Chip

TC
TC

I think it’s a great idea. Let all the nuts who hate cars stack themselves one upon another in an urban hovel.

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

Based upon projections where by 2035, every penny of the Federal Budget will be spent to service the interest on the national debt, anyone who lives in a big city will be dead meat. The folks in Flyover Country won’t be doing good, either,but at least they have a chance to survive.
Oh, there’s people saying that they will ban most cars by then. However, after the Democrats move to “control” guns in Virginia next year under threat of gun point, no one will be in the mood to talk about banning anything. The very suggestion of it could well get you a bullet in the head.

Pequiste
Pequiste

Living cheek by jowl in a mega-city, or anyplace else for that matter, and not being able to have an automobile, looks to be an enhanced living experience with wonderful benefits for all.
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Steve
Steve

Looks like peeping Tom paradise alright.

Ginger
Ginger

At least everybody has a window to piss out of, when the lights and water go out.
Seriously though, just think of the plumbing in a place like that.

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

Think about what happens when a soil pipe gets stopped up in that edifice. The people on the floor right above the blockage will be literally be living in a globalist shithole.

subwo
subwo

HONG KONG

John
John

Cram them all together and let them sort it out. In the end it won’t be pretty.Just look at all big city high rise housing. A really neat place to live, right?

wdg
wdg

What we are witnessing are the United Nations Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 in action. The objective is to concentrate people in anthills making them easier to monitor and control in a New World Tyranny. The level of evil among the satanic creatures who rule over us knows no limits. Freedom and privacy are being slowly extinguished as we are culled from planet earth.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

I believe, by law, they must have a minimum number of handicapped parking spaces, based on occupancy. Tempe is full of retired people and many of them display the ubiquitous blue handicapped sticker from their rear view mirror. It is time for some of them to sue these people into submission.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

I suspect that it only applies to parking lots – meaning, if you have NO parking spaces, you don’t need to have any handicapped parking spaces. How anyone comes to visit you is a mystery, but just part of the compartmentalized, electronically-connected world they are driving towards.

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

There are NO LAWS for the Globalists. Whoever planned this auto-free development has a direct line to someone of an important bloodline.

doug
doug

Most small towns in the USA were built “car free”. There were no cars!

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

There will be no towns left in America if our Coiffed Shitheads have anything to do with it. They want everyone there either dead or shipped off to one of their mega-cities so they can turn Flyover into their game and nature preserve.

A. R. Wasem
A. R. Wasem

There were horses and buggies instead.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

Yes, but there was a “road” where the horse, or horse and buggy traveled, and there were hitching posts or similar to tie up at. When cars came along, these roads were converted accordingly, with parking spaces designated in the same way hitching posts were provided.

When you are talking about a development, neighborhood, etc. you are generally talking about someone acquiring private property and then developing it to the limits of the property lines. In NORMAL cases, accommodations are provided for vehicles because there is no space outside of the property lines where it will be allowed (generally because adjacent developments have taken up the space). If there is a road, it generally will not accommodate vehicles that are parked because the private property owners are expected to accommodate.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

To be fair, had government properly protected the rights of EVERYONE and treated pollution as the trespass and property rights violation that it is, way back during the industrial revolution, many of our problems would never have come about. Cars were built spewing lots of pollutants that everyone was forced to breathe, and the regulations (not the correct or libertarian way to address such problems) of the 60s were put in place to finally address what was horrible pollution in car-filled cities.

BS like all of this will only continue until the Empire completely collapses. The remnants will not have enough money or wealth to take care of daily business, let alone enforce this kind of garbage. Additionally, the breakup will leave many freedom-oriented areas that simply will not enforce any of this.

e.d. ott
e.d. ott

Learn how to ride a horse instead.
SHTF those city slickers with dead batteries will be walking dead.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

And the dindoos who attempt to “horse-jack” you will be unable to ride your horse in the same way that they cannot operate a manual transmission car today. Best “safety” feature ever.

KaD
KaD

Agenda 21.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

What is needed is Agenda .45.

Austrian Peter

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