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[article] EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives as US pick-up trucks flood into Europe
(www.transportenvironment.org)
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But who is going to buy one? Be a nightmare in many European cities and towns, just too big for places built for horse and carriage. They just drink fuel, so are expensive to run. Plus, everyone will think/know you are a knob head.
Knob heads. Too many of them. Recently I also noticed a trend of craftsmen like roofers driving F150s and modded Amaroks here in Germany. Before, these guys would drive utility vans with 'don't take my diesel' stickers
They will have higher running costs for their social statement. Hopefully that causes a correction. Especially as fuel costs vs electricity costs get worse.
No it won't. A thick-headed tradie is the same animal no matter which continent. The only things that will change is the volume and frequency of the complaint about fuel prices when they're working and how [insert local right-wing populist/full-on fascist] would put a stop to it if elected.
Assholes with a fragile ego.
So the same people who buy them in America.
Kid-killers on four wheels
People will buy them and bitch and moan to their politicians the streets don't accommodate their over sized truck thats is spotless clean with an empty bed.
Politicians can nothing, the roads are as wide as they can be already, being the hundreds of years of history. Better off just pedestrianizing them.
assholes will
and as such, they should be treated like assholes. treat their vehicle like assholes. treat them like assholes. they are endangering you, they are affecting your life, make sure you affect theirs as well and try to guide them towards not being an asshole by showing them consequences for their actions
As an American, nobody has to buy them at first. "Light trucks" like pickups and SUVs weren't always big in the US, but because they were more profitable, aggressive advertising campaigns turned SUVs from being something mocked for being unsafe, unwieldy, and inefficient into being what nearly everyone drives. I hate it. Infrastructure has shifted to accommodate them to the detriment of everyone else. Don't let it happen to you. The last several years the top 5 best selling vehicles in the US have been pickups. Not because anyone needs them, but because advertising has turned them into a cultural staple, despite their inconvenience.
It's hard in Europe as everything is constrained by pre-existing buildings. There just isn't the space to expand many roads without knocking stuff down that has been there hundreds of years. In the cities and towns, it's buildings, in the country it is stone walls.
Though I would also road tax the bloody things extra.
As they should be. Heavier vehicles do exponentially more wear on roads.
All these points don't seem to stop people from buying ever bigger cars (Edit: at least in the part of Germany where I live). Most of my neighbours park in the street now, because their cars don't fit in the garages built in the 60s and 70s anymore or one car takes up the parking spots designed for two cars in front of their house. A neighbour recently asked me if I could park closer to the wall in our shared underground parking garage, because he has trouble getting into his car when I park in the middle of my spot. It wasn't a problem before he and the neighbours on his other side bought new cars.
They won't give a single shit about anyone else, they finally are the big hard man and no one can push them about. Take that, Scott Murphy! Who's pushing me into dog poo now!