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Re:Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic i... by morsch on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:34AM (#32412671)
A Renault Twingo weighs about 2150 lbs. This is a sensible car which seats two comfortably and four in a pinch. It also gets 40-50 mpg. No, you can't transport your quad with it, and it's not very useful when moving house. It's also not the right car if you're currently raising three kids; most aren't. The average occupancy rate for cars is 1.5.

Car taxation should scale quadratic with weight.

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Re:Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic i... by ericd on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:48AM (#32412922)
I think the issue with the nonlinear road wear taxation is that any fair system would have trucking paying basically 100% of the tax, and that would result in much higher goods transportation costs (I think it’s actually proportional to the 4th power of axle weight). Which I’m personally fine with, I think it’s bad policy to subsidize trucking over trains, but it’d be a big adjustment.
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