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