Posted on 12/02/2013 10:49:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
What do the poor need most? Jobs? Nah. In Governor Moonbeam’s California they need free electric cars.
Free means that you’ll be paying for them. Even if you’re not a California resident, there will probably be Federal money involved.
“The California Air Resources Board is now embarking on a program that would help poor people buy energy-efficient vehicles. In one scenario posed by the agency, a “voucher” might even pay the full price for a Nissan Leaf, an electric car with an MSRP above $21,000, or for used cars with lower price tags.”
But it only stands to reason. If companies like Tesla and Karma get gobs of money from Obama. It’s time to make electric cars go full welfare.
“Apparently, wealthy people already are benefiting from subsidies to high-end electric car makers such as the Tesla. This law brings car subsidies directly to lower-income people. The law was authored by Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Calabassas, recently named one of two Legislators of the Year by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers for her efforts to promote cleaner air.”
Sure. Cleaner air. Has nothing to do with a plan to buy and give away cars that no one wants.
Not even a possibility.
“It finds, for instance, the agency would need to pay the “full cost” of a vehicle for a family of two to buy a new electric car or $18,000 for a family of three to buy a used hybrid.”
Why not also buy them dinner for a year and throw in weekly theater tickets. It’s for the environment.
Come to California, where there’s no money to pay the cops or firefighters, but there’s plenty of money to buy electric cars for the poor.
This one is hard to believe EVEN for nutbag CA state.
Why do Californians elect people that are evil, insane or both?
I’m surprised its not national
They are paying people with IOU’s and they want to do WHAT???!?
The entire state of California needs to be fenced-in like the prison compound in “The Walking Dead”.
Free? Who pays for the electric?
Shhh! Don’t give the liberals any more ideas.
I’m poor, so I gets me a free ($28,000) Obama car, take it directly to the scrapyard and sell it for $2500, and I’m not po’ no mo’!
California already wastes billions of dineros on mass transit.... which was designed and sold on the premise that it would remove some of the excess cars and relieve traffic
I can see the bangers loving this. Imagine how easy Drive-bys will be if they can’t hear you coming
” The car has been dubbed the “Mini-Beetle” for its diminutive dimensions — just 107 cm (40 inches) long, 118 cm (43 inches) wide and 137 cm (50 inches) tall with a total weight of just 130 kg (288 pounds) thanks to the blue fiberglass shell.
The car can actually seat a passenger alongside the driver. Its 36-volt batteries powers it at a top speed of 28 kph (18 mph) for a distance of up to 60 kilometers (38 miles).”
There is no freaking way a full grown human could fit in that thing, much less two of them!!
especially not a welfare loafer who would use two of these things as skates if they exerted the effort needed to skate.
I actually saw a Leaf on the road this morning,a butt-ugly car in vomit green.
All those po’ folk in Kali will probably sell them and use the money to buy real cars (or drugs).
How about the Peel P50?
Poor people don’t all live in homies.
How are they going to charge these things, much less pay for the electric bill.
I’m sure you don’t need to be legally in California to get your free $30k car, either. Wouldn’t it be racists to ask for ID?
California actually has its own auto insurance program ‘for the poor’. Did you expect anything less?
http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0100-consumers/0060-information-guides/0010-automobile/lca/index.cfm
I’d never fit in that either.
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