Comments on: Thank You ZipCar For Removing The Cars From All Over Los Angeles. http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2008/01/23/thank-you-zipcar-for-removing-all-the-cars-from-my-neighborhood/ Sustainability, Environment, Progressive Politics, Peak Oil, Being Green. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:16:11 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ZipHater http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2008/01/23/thank-you-zipcar-for-removing-all-the-cars-from-my-neighborhood/comment-page-1/#comment-22703 ZipHater Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:12:13 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2008/01/23/thank-you-zipcar-for-removing-all-the-cars-from-my-neighborhood/#comment-22703 The larger picture is that the CEO of Zipcar (not its founder, btw, they kicked HER out) is an elitist who thinks that the rest of us who are not affiliated with an institution of higher learning should not be using their cars. They did the same thing in San Diego - only the UCSD location remained. So let's do the math - they're charging more than the regular car rental companies do ($66-$72 per day for up to 180 miles per day, to $25-$35 per day, if we take Budget as an example; add insurance and gas, and it's still less; and you get true unlimited mileage ). And Budget has two locations in a 2-miles radius from me. All ZipCar did was screw Flexcar and its users over, and offered nothing in return. My membership was cancelled. I hope someone else starts a new venture and give them some competition. They suck. The larger picture is that the CEO of Zipcar (not its founder, btw, they kicked HER out) is an elitist who thinks that the rest of us who are not affiliated with an institution of higher learning should not be using their cars. They did the same thing in San Diego – only the UCSD location remained.
So let’s do the math – they’re charging more than the regular car rental companies do ($66-$72 per day for up to 180 miles per day, to $25-$35 per day, if we take Budget as an example; add insurance and gas, and it’s still less; and you get true unlimited mileage ). And Budget has two locations in a 2-miles radius from me. All ZipCar did was screw Flexcar and its users over, and offered nothing in return. My membership was cancelled. I hope someone else starts a new venture and give them some competition. They suck.

]]> By: Zipcar Has Gone And Pissed Off Quite A Few People Now With The Flexcar Takeover. | The Good Human http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2008/01/23/thank-you-zipcar-for-removing-all-the-cars-from-my-neighborhood/comment-page-1/#comment-14214 Zipcar Has Gone And Pissed Off Quite A Few People Now With The Flexcar Takeover. | The Good Human Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:34:43 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2008/01/23/thank-you-zipcar-for-removing-all-the-cars-from-my-neighborhood/#comment-14214 [...] back when I wrote about Zipcar removing all the cars in my neighborhood? Well, it looks like it might be happening in other cities [...] [...] back when I wrote about Zipcar removing all the cars in my neighborhood? Well, it looks like it might be happening in other cities [...]

]]> By: David http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2008/01/23/thank-you-zipcar-for-removing-all-the-cars-from-my-neighborhood/comment-page-1/#comment-13350 David Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:43:07 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2008/01/23/thank-you-zipcar-for-removing-all-the-cars-from-my-neighborhood/#comment-13350 I agree Lyle - in plain words, it is bullshit. I agree Lyle – in plain words, it is bullshit.

]]> By: LYLE DAVIDSON http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2008/01/23/thank-you-zipcar-for-removing-all-the-cars-from-my-neighborhood/comment-page-1/#comment-13349 LYLE DAVIDSON Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:34:05 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2008/01/23/thank-you-zipcar-for-removing-all-the-cars-from-my-neighborhood/#comment-13349 From: Lyle & Evelyn Davidson To: LETTERS@UNIONTRIB.COM Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:48 AM Subject: TRANSITIONED TO DEATH The Union-Tribune printed only a cursory story about the fact that hourly-rental Flexcar has disappeared from Southern California when ZipCar, spouting glowing predictions of future plans and green promises, removed all cars except for a few on college campuses. ZipCar described this as "transitioning" the Flexcar fleet into the ZipCar inventory. How about a follow-up on the impact for businesses and government agencies that had depended on Flexcar to supplement or replace their car-pools? How about the impact on people who moved downtown and even sold their cars on the promise that a fleet of environment-friendly vehicles would be available? But we have acquired a new euphemism that should start showing up in news stories. How about: "The convicted serial killer's final appeal was rejected and he was transitioned by lethal injection at midnight" Or maybe, "The grizzly bear continued to menace tourists at the mountain resort so park officers had no choice but to transition him." From: Lyle & Evelyn Davidson
To: LETTERS@UNIONTRIB.COM
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:48 AM
Subject: TRANSITIONED TO DEATH

The Union-Tribune printed only a cursory story about the fact that hourly-rental Flexcar has disappeared from Southern California when ZipCar, spouting glowing predictions of future plans and green promises, removed all cars except for a few on college campuses. ZipCar described this as “transitioning” the Flexcar fleet into the ZipCar inventory. How about a follow-up on the impact for businesses and government agencies that had depended on Flexcar to supplement or replace their car-pools? How about the impact on people who moved downtown and even sold their cars on the promise that a fleet of environment-friendly vehicles would be available?

But we have acquired a new euphemism that should start showing up in news stories. How about: “The convicted serial killer’s final appeal was rejected and he was transitioned by lethal injection at midnight” Or maybe, “The grizzly bear continued to menace tourists at the mountain resort so park officers had no choice but to transition him.”

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