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Even if this was the only/biggest source, you can browbeat the automotive industry to stop making so many heavy, gas guzzling vehicles. You can browbeat politic
by dfxm12 4y ago
Even if this was the only/biggest source, you can browbeat the automotive industry to stop making so many heavy, gas guzzling vehicles. You can browbeat politicians into prioritizing public transportation & vehicle regulations over lobbying efforts from the automotive industry.
Our "broken culture" isn't innate in us, it was designed.
- bombcar 4y agoThe US government could overturn the "pickup war" instantly - just make vehicles under a certain (small) size entirely tax-free in various ways. The market would adapt quite quickly.
- jeffbee 4y agoOr states can adopt the minor and simple policies of California, where incrementally higher registration fees by weight, commercial registration for all pickups, and fuel taxes only slightly higher than other states and nowhere near as high as other developed nations have led to a private vehicle fleet with no trucks among the top-selling vehicles.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoAs 12 states have done: https://mde.maryland.gov/programs/air/mobilesources/pages/states.aspx https://mde.maryland.gov/programs/air/mobilesources/pages/st... No surprises, it's the "states you'd actually want to live in" overrepresented as per usual.
- jeffbee 4y agoThat's not even one of the measures that I mentioned, but yes!