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.
Let me see if I get this right:
People who live in housing paid for by tax payers will now have access to new cars, paid for by business taxes, which are paid for by consumers.
Is there any economic incentive to work in California?
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said the cars will help people get to doctors appointments, job interviews and school.
I doubt it.
“It’s providing accessible transportation to low-income people using the newest, cleanest technology,” said Steinberg. “This is the definition of environmental justice.”
Social justice with environmental flavoring.
I give it a week until every one of these cars is trashed and/or stripped down to nothing for scrap or chop-shop parts.
See, I used to live in a housing complex that was stocked with Section 8 tenants.
Rapid City sucked for apartment rentals. It was next to three Indian reservations. Landlords who maintained low cost apartments would fill up with subsided housing request from people coming of the Res. If you didn’t want anybody Section 8 in your apartment, you have to price yourself way above the goverment cost limit. That meant if you were a poor grad student, you either paid a lot for fancy apartment in a good development or you lived with a bunch of subsidized tenants as your neighbors.
I had a bunch of subsidized neighbors.
God I hated them. They would steal the appliances out of apartments and sell them to pawn shops before moving out at the middle of the night.
My plumbing backed up on several occasions because grandma would get the apartment and have half-a-dozen grandkids stay with her. They were “just visiting” for an indefinite period of time. Seven people in a single apartment sharing one toilet would back it up, and then back up the plumbing for the whole building.
Yeah, I’m a mean sumbitch who doesn’t like people on welfare/EBT/Section 8/etc. Having your neighbors bang on your door in the middle of the night wanting to come in and stay with you because they didn’t pay their gas and electric bills and the utility companies restricted their use; or come by and ask for food because they saw you carrying bags of groceries inside will do that to you.
Having lived through all that, I’m sure that the $1.3 million dollar grant is going to be turned into shit in a week.
Since California is where economic theory goes to get murdered by political ideology, nobody responsible for this when it turns into a disaster, will be held accountable. It was done with the best of “environmental justice” intentions.
All I can say is that after reading shit like this, I want to stop paying taxes, and instead just want to send a monthly check to NASA and the DOD. Fuck everything else. These people are too stupid to handle my money.
My understanding is the public housing in Cali is infested with gangs. My first thought is the gang leaders will use this new tribute as their personal carriages. If not the new largess will be converted to cash via your friendly neighborhood chop shop. Either way, regular folks will be reduced to “Shank’s ponies” as always. Oh, by the way, unless guarded by the homies, the charging stations will be torn apart for the copper.
better ye, imagine a drive-by or any other hosts of crimes using one of the cars
Push for Californian independence.
My understanding is the public housing in Cali is infested with gangs. My first thought is the gang leaders will use this new tribute as their personal carriages. If not the new largess will be converted to cash via your friendly neighborhood chop shop. Either way, regular folks will be reduced to “Shank’s ponies” as always. Oh, by the way, unless guarded by the homies, the charging stations will be torn apart for the copper.
better ye, imagine a drive-by or any other hosts of crimes using one of the cars
Humm … Electric cars = “Silent Ninja Assassination Chariots” copyright applied for.
https://ifunny.co/fun/t6E9M3mI3?gallery=tag&query=redbox
Sounds like someone’s gonna find out what “The Tragedy of the Commons” is all about.
Land of fruits and nuts…….and spreading to the whole country. “Carbon offsets”? I can think of carbonizing……politicians, oops did I say that out loud?