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Why are trucks exempt?

• alamortsubite 4y ago
  When the act was passed the average consumer didn't see pickup trucks as the weird kind of status symbol that they've become today. People used them commercially- on farms, plowing, hauling, whatever. So presumably in order not to step on the toes of the economy, pickups got a pass and were exempted. Of course, now that these things have blossomed into full-blown vanity displays and are only occasionally used for work purposes, it'd make sense to lump them into the gas-guzzler category. I'm sure the auto manufacturers won't be the ones to suggest it.