D.C. residents are upset at car sharing firms. They want 140 public curbside parking spots to be turned over to them, so their users will have spots all over the city to pick up and drop off the cars. Residents already have a tough enough time finding parking, but their voices are falling on some deaf ears.

City officials defend the program as a way to reduce the number of vehicles in the District.

"The point of the program is to reduce parking and traffic congestion in the neighborhood," said Rick Rybeck, the deputy administrator of the D.C. Department of Transportation.

Of course city officials don't have to worry about fighting for parking.

The council voted in July 2002 to exempt itself from the city's parking regulations. The measure, coming after a year in which traffic-enforcement officers had cracked down on illegally parked council members' cars...

[Council members have] the freedom to park in bus zones, in restricted spaces near intersections, at building entrances and on restricted residential streets. It also freed council members from having to put money into parking meters.

As usual, rules for thee, but not for me.