About 20 years ago, the then-Statists-in-D.C. cooked up the term "smart growth" to describe their plan to quash sub- and ex-urban development.
It's back, re-named, and being pushed by the current Statists-in-D.C.
...The Times, and just about every other major news outlet,
neglected to note that on the day of Obama’s Argonne speech, the
Department of Energy released a series of coordinated reports
called “Transportation Energy Futures” (developed in cooperation with
Argonne). This DOE project explores a variety of strategies designed to
curb America’s greenhouse gas emissions up to 80 percent by about 2050.
Arguably the most controversial of those reports covers the “effects of the built environment
on transportation.” To put it plainly, the “built environment” report
lays out strategies the federal government can use to force development
away from suburbs and into cities, supposedly for the sake of reducing
carbon dioxide emissions given off by all those suburban commuters. The Obama
administration wants to force so-called smart growth policies on the
country: get out of your car, stay out of the suburbs, move into small,
tightly-packed urban apartment complexes, and walk or take public
transportation instead of driving...--quoted at the Captain's place.
Wanna bet that living in sub- or ex-urbia will be castigated as "racist" in se over the next 5 years? I've already heard that from an acquaintance of the Leftish persuasion....
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