Re:Edinburgh, Scotland makes it illegal to advertise SUVs
by lolinder on Sunday June 16, 2024 @03:23PM
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> 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.)
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