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A large reason for the continued growth in size of US cars is EPA gas mileage requirements. Vehicles with larger footprints have less restrictive MPG requiremen
by codexb 2y ago
A large reason for the continued growth in size of US cars is EPA gas mileage requirements. Vehicles with larger footprints have less restrictive MPG requirements, and so manufacturers target larger footprints while trying to reduce weight. MPG stays roughly the same year after year, but cars get consistently larger.
- eleveriven 2y agoAnd what are the environmental costs of this trend?
- scott_w 2y agoThe USA is the biggest greenhouse gas emitter per capita on earth.
- badpun 2y agoAccording to Wikipedia, USA is in 16th place, behind a bunch of small countries, and Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia and Russia.
- scott_w 2y agoSmall countries are ignored on most metrics because they heavily skew to extremes, so aren’t useful. I saw Russia being slightly higher but figured it was marginal and “we emit slightly less than a petrostate in the middle of bombing the fuck out of their neighbour” was hardly a “win” for the USA…