The current fuel economy rules are part of the problem. They're calculated based on vehicle footprint, so larger vehicles are held to lower standards. It ends up giving automakers an incentive to build and invest in marketing larger vehicles.
This is a pretty striking finding. The growing popularity of SUVs in the United States essentially offset between 19% to 75% of the projected emissions savings from the Obama-era fuel economy standards. (Depending on what counterfactual you use, as Tim explains here...) https://twitter.com/twkovach/status/1386733418403307520 …
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sedan owner
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Buy. An. Estate. Car.
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The amount of cultural b.s. at the root of our excesses is staggering Like the triggered macho men claiming eco radical Biden was fixing to steal their steaks. SUVs are like that too. Most aren’t running roughshod over dirt trails. They’re grocery shopping & picking up the kidshttps://twitter.com/haleyvemealone/status/1386371777534865409 …
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“Mom Tanks” are all over the place — it’s nuts..
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The automobile industry always claims they give customers what they want. At the same time, they spend millions of dollars on ads making it look like average Americans spend our daily commutes driving the Jeep roads of Moab.
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Agreed. Industry knew they had higher margins on SUVs and pushed ad campaigns accordingly – and by consequence made "econo boxes" look puny, undesirable, and vulnerable to the point where they stopped making small cars at all.
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