US DOT Funding Propaganda

The Department of Transportation’s twitter page recently posted a tweet showing a hypothetical zoomer promoting the Build Back Better Act. “The new infrastructure law is going to make getting from place to place so much better over the next decade and when combined with the Build Back Better Act it will create millions of new jobs,” says the zoomer.

I’m not sure if there is a federal law forbidding an agency from lobbying the public in favor of a non-partisan bill, but it is generally frowned on. Legal or not, many if not most of the responses from people in the twitter universe were negative.

“Soon we’ll have high speed rail that will change travel from NY to LA from hours to days,” says one. “And electric cars that have to be charged for 2 hours every time you drive more than 200 miles. So much better!”

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“What are you thinking about?” parodies one. “I’d like to come see you but gas is too expensive and the metro has been taken over by gangs.”

My own response is to feel sorry for anyone who thinks that the infrastructure bill will do anything about making it easier to get from place to place. Most of the transportation dollars in the bill will be spend on programs that most Americans never use, and too much money in the bill will be spent making it more difficult for people to get from place to place (in order to discourage driving).

Why is the Department of Transportation promoting the Build Back Better Act anyway? According to its proponents, the proposed law has only “modest” transportation programs, and most are really about something else, such as access to low-income housing or climate change.

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6 Responses to US DOT Funding Propaganda

  1. JimKarlock says:

    Since you mentioned Al Gore’s climate scam, this may interest you.

    Look at real data and recognize the fact that the “climate crisis” is the biggest scam in human history!

    Here are some true climate facts:
    • There has been less than one degree of warming from 1850 to 2012
    • There is no evidence that hurricanes have increased
    • There is no evidence that storms have increased
    • There is no evidence that sea level rise has increased
    • There is no evidence that floods have increased
    • There is no evidence that droughts have increased
    • Man emits 6% of CO2 emissions, nature 94%
    • CO2 causes ONLY about 1/3 of the warming.
    • It is not possible to predict future climate.
    (Evidence is below)

    Fact is that there is nothing unusual about today’s climate and thus nothing to explain with man’s CO2. This well respected source debunks several popular lies about climate:

    Here are Quotes & Facts from the IPCC (which is considered the bible of climate), NASA & the Bulletin of the American Metrological Society.
    (You may have read other claims from the IPCC, usually from the Summary For Policy Makers without knowing that the summary is actually a political document written, word by word, by politicians from many countries including those looking for cash handouts. The below is from the science part of the report.)

    1. Earth only warmed 0.78 degree C up to 2012.
    “Using Had-CRUT4 and its uncertainty estimates, the warming from 1850–1900 to 1986–2005 (reference period for the modelling chapters and Annex I) is 0.61 [0.55 to 0.67] C (90% confidence interval), and the warming from 1850–1900 to 2003–2012 (the most recent decade) is 0.78 [0.72 to 0.85] C (Supplementary Material 2.SM.4.3.3).”
    Pg. 209 of https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_all_final.pdf

    2. Man emits about 6% of total emissions.
    Add the numbers on this NASA diagram: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/CarbonCycle/page1.php

    3. CO2 causes only about 26-32% of the greenhouse effect. H2O causes 60-75%.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect#Greenhouse_gases which is based on Table 3 of: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 78, No. 2, February 1997 –
    http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0477%281997%29078%3C0197%3AEAGMEB%3E2.0.CO%3B2

    4. We do not have enough data to say that hurricanes have increased.
    “Confidence remains low for long-term (centennial) changes in tropical cyclone activity, after accounting for past changes in observing capabilities.”
    pg 178 of https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_all_final.pdf

    5. We do not have enough data to say that storms have increased.
    “Confidence in large-scale trends in storminess or storminess proxies over the last century is low owing to inconsistencies between studies or lack of long-term data in some parts of the world (particularly in the SH). {2.6.4}”
    pg 178 of https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_all_final.pdf

    6. No evidence that normal sea level increase has accelerated.
    (Note that sea levels have been rising since the end of the last ice age – the issue is whether it is rising faster.)

    “When a 60-year oscillation is modeled along with an acceleration term, the estimated acceleration in GMSL since 1900 ranges from: 0.000 [–0.002 to 0.002] mm yr–2 in the Ray and Douglas (2011) record, 0.013 [0.007 to 0.019] mm yr–2 in the Jevrejeva et al. (2008) record, and 0.012 [0.009 to 0.015] mm yr–2 in the Church and White (2011) record. Thus, while there is more disagreement on the value of a 20th century acceleration in GMSL when accounting for multi-decadal fluctuations, two out of three records still indicate a significant positive value. The trend in GMSL observed since 1993, however, is not significantly larger than the estimate of 18-year trends in previous decades (e.g., 1920–1950). “
    Page 306 of https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_all_final.pdf

    7. No evidence that floods have increased (per IPCC)
    “AR4 WGI Chapter 3 (Trenberth et al., 2007) did not assess changes in floods but AR4 WGII concluded that there was not a general global trend in the incidence of floods (Kundzewicz et al., 2007). SREX went further to suggest that there was low agreement and thus low confidence at the global scale regarding changes in the magnitude or frequency of floods or even the sign of changes.”
    pg 230 of https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_all_final.pdf

    8. No evidence that droughts have increased
    “Confidence is low for a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century, owing to lack of direct observations, methodological uncertainties and geographical inconsistencies in the trends.”
    pg 178 of https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_all_final.pdf

    9. Prediction of future climate is not possible.
    “The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible. “ https://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/501.htm (IPCC third Assessment Report (2001) Section 14.2.2.2, page 774) and Page 771, https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/TAR-14.pdf

    This shows that THERE IS NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY.
    Also see: http://www.debunkingclimate.com/arguements.html
    http://icecap.us/index.php/go/political-climate/alarmist_claim_rebuttals_updated/

    More Information:
    https://notrickszone.com/2021/10/25/in-a-few-days-clouds-affect-earths-radiation-budget-by-more-than-co2-does-in-270-years/

    A Potted History of Glaciers
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/11/11/a-potted-history-of-glaciers/

    Swiss Billionaire Bankrolling Dark Money Group Pushing for Biden Climate Initiative
    https://freebeacon.com/policy/swiss-billionaire-bankrolling-dark-money-group-pushing-for-biden-climate-initiative/

    New Study With Groundbreaking Results: “Connection Between Cosmic Rays, Radiation Budget Reaffirmed” https://notrickszone.com/2021/10/31/new-study-with-groundbreaking-results-connection-between-cosmic-rays-radiation-budget-reaffirmed/

    CO2 FOLLOWS TEMPERATURE:
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257343053_The_phase_relation_between_atmospheric_carbon_dioxide_and_global_temperature/link/56e4581508ae68afa1106148/download

  2. LazyReader says:

    Infrastructure was a huge issue in the 2008 election. Biden was in the white House for 8 years after that and did what exactly? Zilch. Now when banks want to issue debt, he’s all about trillion dollar spending packages. Cool.

  3. LazyReader says:

    Man emits 6% of CO2 emissions, nature 94%.
    That’s absurd…
    Our emissions are responsible for at least 90% of rise in CO2 from 280-415 ppm since 1850. There is no other known source of CO2 that could have caused this rise. Only 50% of our emissions remain in atmosphere each year. The other 50% adds to greening the Earth, increasing life.

  4. CapitalistRoader says:

    The kid dreaming of BBB must be the ObamaCare Pajama Boy’s younger brother.

  5. prk166 says:


    Man emits 6% of CO2 emissions, nature 94%.
    That’s absurd…
    Our emissions are responsible for at least 90% of rise in CO2
    ” ~lazyReader

    90% of my weight gain today has come from eating cereal.

    Yet cereal is responsible for very little of my overall weight.

    Time for LazyReader to start his own blog called the anti-Thinker.

  6. Hugh Jardonn says:

    I’ll believe global warming is a problem when the rich people telling me it’s a problem start acting like it’s a problem. That means no more private jets to Davos.

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