By Lauren Fix, The Car Coach
The World Economic Forum (WEF) wants you to give up your car, truck or SUV. They want car ownership to be outlawed because The Great Reset is about control and tightening the grip on your freedom.
They ask if your car is really necessary. The World Economic Forum doesn’t think so. The WEF has published a paper that calls for an end to “wasteful” private car ownership in favor of communal sharing to lessen global demands for precious metals and fossil fuels.
The unelected elites in Geneva, Switzerland, claim that too many people own private vehicles for the planet’s good. Most are barely driven and a universal model that will take consumers “from owning to using” their cars is the way forward. They state that “The average car or van in England is driven just 4 percent of the time.” Instead of having vehicles sit idle, sell your car and walk or share because “Car sharing platforms have already seized that opportunity to offer vehicles where you pay per hour used.”
This was found unsuccessful in the US and especially during the pandemic.
The end to private ownership is essential, according to the WEF, and can be applied from everything to cars to private homes and even city-wide design principles.
The WEF states that this is fundamental to this transition. “This is the mindset needed to redesign cities to reduce private vehicles and other usages.” The WEF is not alone in seeing an almost criminal culpability in anyone who owns a vehicle for private use. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has directed global governments to urgently cut oil supply to domestic consumers and encourage compliance with its call for lowered consumption by “nudging” people out of their private cars.
The IEA 10-point plan to drive “changes in the behavior of consumers” and reduce gas demand at the pump includes reducing speed limits, working from home three days a week, more electric cars, car-free Sundays, more bicycle lanes, cheaper public transport and greater use of long-distance trains over planes. This is a very elitist thought process and removes your ability to get places efficiently and quickly.
Drivers in Ireland have already been warned they will be forced off the roads and the population packed into “higher density” cities under a climate plan which will “revolutionize” people’s lifestyle and behaviors. This comes as people are fleeing big cities especially in the US.
This new agenda called the “climate apocalypse” wants governments to force people “out of private cars because they are the biggest offenders for emissions” with proposals that include banning fossil fuel vehicles from towns and cities nationwide to intentionally crippling ordinary motorists, per their reports.
The Bottom Line
So are the elites going to give up their private jets and travel by bicycle? Will they use mass transit? Of course they won’t.
As for their study, if cars are truly only driven 4 percent of the time, they can’t be causing much pollution.
In addition to this, the impact to the global economy of reducing auto sales will crush businesses, jobs, and countries’ financial positions.
Will you let the WEF control your freedom to drive your vehicle? Once they start walking themselves and taking mass transit, which they never will, then this is pure hypocrisy. I call BS to anyone who foolishly goes along with these absurd ideas.
There is so much more to discuss on this, put your comments below and let’s start the conversation.
Lauren is the CEO of Automotive Aspects and the Editor-in-Chief of Car Coach Reports, a global automotive news outlet. She is an automotive contributor to national and local television news shows, including Fox News, Fox Business, CNN International, The Weather Channel, Inside Edition, Local Now News, Community Digital News, and more. Lauren also co-hosts a regular show on ABC.com with Paul Brian called “His Turn – Her Turn” and hosts regular radio segments on USA Radio – DayBreak.
Lauren is honored to be inducted into the Women’s Transportation Hall of Fame and a Board Member of the Buffalo Motorcar Museum and Juror / President for the North American Car, Utility & Truck of the Year Awards.
Check her out on Twitter and Instagram @LaurenFix.
Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author.
Aren’t the members of the world economic forum business leaders? Why don’t they lobby to introduce laws to make manufacturers keep parts in stock longer for appliances so that they don’t have to be replaced so often? Wouldn’t that reduce waste? Why is it always something new we need to buy to make the world greener? Doesn’t it make more sense to create products that last longer? And what about all the disposable products created like Swiffer that aren’t even necessary? Why are sodas still produced? Considering their impact on health and the fact that no one needs soda. They say we will own nothing and be happy, so who will own everything? And how are they planning to steal all of our stuff?
This is such an unhinged piece