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Re:2022 Ford F-150 Lightning by elihu on Friday May 21, 2021 @01:45PM (#27237351)
> Write your representative and tell them to thank the EPA and NHTSA for doing their jobs.

It seems like those regulations aren't working they way they ought to if the result is to encourage people to drive bigger cars than they need and to have more cars on the road that minimize the safety risk to the occupants while maximizing risk to everyone else...

> The death of the small pickup is squarely the fault of the confluence of fuel economy and crash safety regulations.

...and the chicken tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

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Re:2022 Ford F-150 Lightning by throwaway0a5e on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:09PM (#27237684)
Thanking them for doing their jobs was sarcasm. The chicken tax existed for decades and small pickups were fine though I'm no fan of it in principal.
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Re:2022 Ford F-150 Lightning by syshum on Friday May 21, 2021 @03:36PM (#27238875)
>>>It seems like those regulations aren't working they way they ought to

Regulations rarely end up with the outcomes the people pushing for the regulations publicly claim the desired outcome is.

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