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Re:Edinburgh, Scotland makes it illegal to advertise SUVs by stefan_ on Sunday June 16, 2024 @03:19PM (#40699391)
Why is that so unbelievable? There is a well documented correlation between fuel prices and the type of car consumers buy, while of course the needs stay the same - if anything, todays consumers have less use for a large car than ever.

So what are we to conclude? Yes, the majority of US car buyers will literally buy the biggest gas guzzling pollution spewer they can afford. Call it revealed preferences, although it's hardly obscured - hell, a large number of people vote on the premise that gas must be $5 forever.

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Re:Edinburgh, Scotland makes it illegal to advertise SUVs by lolinder on Sunday June 16, 2024 @03:23PM (#40699411)
> Yes, the majority of US car buyers will literally buy the biggest gas guzzling pollution spewer they can afford.

This would be a sufficient explanation if and only if SUVs were cheaper than trucks. They're not, so the rising popularity of SUVs cannot be because skirting emissions regulations allowed selling a cheaper gas guzzler.

(This is aside from the fact that is referenced by another comment further up [0] that most modern SUVs aren't actually significantly less fuel efficient than traditional vehicles.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40698910

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