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[-] [email protected] 84 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There is a law in the US that says trucks must meet a certain Miles per gallon fuel economy. But there is a loop hole that says trucks over a certain size are not included in that law. So as long as the trucks are ridiculously big they don't need to worry about their fuel economy.

Edit: it's the CAFE law.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

Because car companies send lobbyists to Congress and pay to influence bills.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

*bribe

It's legalized bribery.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

At the time the law was passed, the carve out was for work trucks which made a minority of the market. Possibly less than 10%, but they also put tariffs on the light trucks imported from Asia, and so now almost 30 years later we have the situation we've got now.

We need to revoke the tariffs on the light trucks for normal people.

Also make it so you have to have a business licence to buy them, and a CDL to drive these "work trucks"

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Does anyone make light trucks anymore? Even Toyotas are 3x bigger than they used to be.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Isuzu still has a light truck division, and the Asian market still has loads of smaller vehicles, we just need to get off this "tank obsession" here in the US

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

In Europe we have vans, they use barely more fuel than regular cars (at least until the really big ones) and can be used for just about any trade.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We also need to get rid of the chicken tax

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Someone must be. Every time I am in Asia I see mini pickups. Would love to have one for my work.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I looked everywhere for a truck of normal size when I was truck shopping. Midsized trucks are bigger now than full sized trucks were when I was younger. The only way to get a small one in the USA is to buy something that's old.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Those damn chickens ruining light truck imports.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Makes money without having to make effort to better their cars, seems very intuitive.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Welcome to the USA of today.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

because they didn't want to piss off the blue-collar demographic, they're a huge voting block and drive trucks for work.

that's politics for you. creating nonsensical laws that aren't made to fix problems, but only to curry favor, be that with voters, lobbyists, whatever

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

and drive trucks for work.

Over here (in Europe) they just changed that. Reduced tariff is only for trucks registered to a company. Private persons pay full. It cut back on truck sales drastically.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

"your vehicle needs to be efficient by law, unless your vehicle is super inefficient then no worries there big guy"

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

holy hell. that's just idiotic. who has that much money to blow on gas?

edit: i saw a post recently saying it costs some truck owner $80 to drive to and from work. i did the math and estimated 8 mpg, so i thought they were exaggerating. but nope, my estimate was pretty damn close to reality, and that's an absurd amount of money to just throw away every day

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It won't stop until we treat anything with the title "truck" as a real truck. CDL and weightstations.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'm fully in favor of tiered and more rigorous licensing. Basic license should only clear you to drive a small, low-power sedan/wagon/hatchback. Vast majority of people won't ever need more than that.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Link or source?

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