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submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

American rental car companies sold off about a million cars when demand stopped for a few months and now they can't buy more in time because of the semiconductor shortage and shipping issues.

As a consequence there are, for example, literally no rental cars available in Montana until September. This will further fuck with the economy of a geographically-large, public-transportation-less state hugely dependent on tourism June through August. Not many tourists gonna be driving between Yellowstone and Glacier and, naturally, there's no train.

In AMERICA, the most car-dependent place in the fucking world, the country where a wad of bills is most supposed to get you whatever you want, you cannot temporarily acquire a car. And we're so hypernormalized etc that nobody's really noticed.

It's a damn Slow Collapse Baklava, layer upon layer of flaky contradictions stuck together with the gooey impending common ruin of the contending classes. We're all individual cells burning off our ATP reserves as we wander the dark cooling hallway vessels of the great corpse

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

Queue up Driversy, the new sharting economy platform that lets Montanans rent their private cars to tourists for a mere 40% platform fee! We empower you to gamble with your livelihood for 15 dollars a day

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

I know this is a bit but there actually is a "rent out your car short term for a few bucks" company

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

I know! they used to be called Relayrides then they changed their name to something else. But the pay was shit and if someone messed up your car the company was pretty hostile towards its users, like many such platforms.

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