How does Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang propose to save the planet?

By taking away your automobile.

Yang said the United States may have to eliminate private car ownership to combat climate change.

At a MSNBC climate forum at Georgetown University (where else?) on September 19, Yang said private car ownership as “really inefficient and bad for the environment.”  “You guys all probably agree with this because you’re quite young,” he said to the student audience. Yang wants privately owned cars to be replaced by a “constant roving fleet of electric cars.”

There is a cost to the elimination of private autos. Yang’s scheme would cost $5 trillion (with a “t”) over the next 20 years. He claims he would manage zero emission by 2030.

This is his “new reality.”

Private automobiles are targets not because of their emission but because of the freedom they represent. America is one of the few countries in the world where citizens can move about freely in their own vehicles.

In order to control the population, Yang and his ilk need to strip away private transportation and force people to live in densified communities and to be utterly dependent on public transportation. That translates into more control for the government.

It’s European model that is totally inconsistent with the freedom that is the hallmark of American life.

The part of the equation that Yang ignores is the environmental impact of making everyone drive electric cars. The electric cars have to have electricity and that has to come from a power plant that probably runs on natural gas or even coal. And when those car batteries wear out, they are a caustic addition to the nation’s landfills.

Yang is trying to buy votes. Fortunately, he stands little chance of getting the Democrat nomination and would be a long shot to beat President Trump in 2020.