No costs for maintenance, fuel, or insurance:
Residents at three public housing areas now have a mini-fleet of free Zipcars to make their way around Sacramento.
On Friday, Sacramento launched a pilot program that put eight shared electric Kia Souls at public housing sites. Up to 300 residents can apply for on-demand access to the vehicles, with no charge for maintenance, insurance or juicing up the battery.
The program is funded through a $1.3 million grant from the California Air Resources Board using cap-and-trade funds that businesses pay to offset their carbon emissions.
Local leaders said it will provide green transportation options to disadvantaged areas where even simple tasks like getting groceries can be a challenge.
“Not having a car … it can be a real strain to get places safely,” said Thomas Hall, spokesman for the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, which is running the program in partnership with car-share company Zipcar and other governmental agencies.
There was a time when it was believed you had to pay for your own healthcare. Back then the amygdala at the thought of being forced to pay for other people’s healthcare overrode the fear of healthcare being denied to people. Now, the left has managed to create an environment where they can argue everyone has a right to free healthcare, paid for by others. That is a big change.
So it seems crazy to argue that everyone should have a government supplied car, but notice they are laying the groundwork. People need cars, it is difficult if you don’t have one, it is unsafe if you don’t have one, and so on and so on. They are trying to weigh the idea of being carless with enough amygdala to over-ride the sense of unfairness at the thought of everyone else having to pay for free cars. It is a formula.
Because resources are free enough that people have what they need now, the amygdala on the side of having to pay for these things is diminished. That is causing brains to be conditionable with these collectivist ideals. You can fight this, if you understand how to weight amygdala on the side of the issue that is important to you. But ultimately it will require a period of shortage to really reprogram brains with a revulsion at the idea of the individual’s earned resources being taken from them and given to others for no reason other than some snowflake wants to feel like they are generous and kind, and they want to use other people’s money to do it.
Spread r/K Theory, because you don’t want to have to pay for everything everyone else wants
It can be difficult to get people to re-rack their weights at a gym… can’t wait to see the update on this one.
I give them 6 months before they’re all destroyed.
[…] Sacramento Gives Fleet Of Free Kia Souls To Public Housing Residents […]
They will deliver 8 Kias.
In 3 days none of them will have radios, spare tires, or batteries. The program will be down for three days.
When it is back, one of the Kias will be totaled and the fleet will be seven. Four more batteries and radios will go missing along with the seats. (They won’t replace the spares because all of them have roadside assistance.) By this point, complaints will be rolling in about how dey nevah have any cahs cuz we black.
The next day, two of the cars will need roadside assistance in Barstow because two of the residents tried to drive the electric cars to Las Vegas. They will have to be towed back. Another car will be seized as evidence because it was used in an armed robbery (because the robber didn’t realize that the cars were constantly tracked by GPS).
Complaints will reach a new high, as there are now only 4 cars in a fleet serving 300. Another car will catch fire as it is being used as a crack den. 397 residents will now be complaining because they are beaten or threatened if they attempt to reserve the (now back to) 5 cars, which are all “reserved” for the use of the drug dealers selling crack from them.
And that is how the program will die.
Funny as hell, and probably dead on accurate.
Your crystal ball is crystal clear.
LOL Yep, that’s a pretty good guess at how this will go down.
Damn these people. It’s just unbelievable. When the dam spillway started happening I saw it as a symptom of this countries decline. They had a 2 million dollar crack that they didn’t repair so it tore up the spillway. Now if they would have taken every single helicopter they had and dumped as much rap (big rocks), maybe even steal all those big concrete highway dividers and bags of cement onto the hole maybe they could have gotten away with a 20 million dollar problem but they let the whole damn spillway wash out so now we have a 200 million dollar problem. While the spillway was washing out they were taking up the mightily important legislation of giving inland welfare recipients free holidays on the beach.
I wish I had a free electric car. We can’t even ride public transportation because the diversity will attack us frequently.