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Re:Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks by ChoGGi on Thursday April 20, 2023 @11:20PM (#35649469)
Larger vehicles have less stringent emissions regulations.

Or something along those lines.

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Re:Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks by worthless-trash on Thursday April 20, 2023 @11:40PM (#35649598)
I would have assumed larger vehicles had more stringent emission regulations, TIL!
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Re:Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks by zzzbra on Friday April 21, 2023 @12:03AM (#35649715)
sadly this is the consequence of green emissions standards legislation passed in 2009. thanks Obama
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Re:Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks by TingPing on Friday April 21, 2023 @12:16AM (#35649763)
The law is from the 70s, but reaffirmed and expanded https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_econo...
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