> Yes, the majority of US car buyers will literally buy the biggest gas guzzling pollution spewer they can afford. This would be a sufficient explanation if an

> Yes, the majority of US car buyers will literally buy the biggest gas guzzling pollution spewer they can afford. This would be a sufficient explanation if and only if SUVs were cheaper than trucks. They're not, so the rising popularity of SUVs cannot be because skirting emissions regulations allowed selling a cheaper gas guzzler. (This is aside from the fact that is referenced by another comment further up [0] that most modern SUVs aren't actually significantly less fuel efficient than traditional vehicles.) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40698910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40698910