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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.
This seems counterintuitive
Because car companies send lobbyists to Congress and pay to influence bills.
*bribe
It's legalized bribery.
It's called lobbying if it occurs in the registered geographic region of Washington DC, everywhere else it's sparkling bribery.
Makes money without having to make effort to better their cars, seems very intuitive.
Welcome to the USA of today.
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
That’s a bold assumption.
Yes. A lot of the people who drive trucks do so because "I'm a big boy! Listen to me make lots of noise in my big lifted truck! Vroom Vroom!!"
If people are actually using it for a small business or whatever, sure, I'll live, but most of the people who buy them are just buying them because they want people to know their dicks are small.
Should be to work. I work in an office and about 25% drive trucks to work. Not one of then tow, off road or carry anything in the back, but will definitely pay 125k thanks to loans on their big boy diesel truck.
One of the laziest shop steward's nephew I have ever dealt with had one of those trucks. You telling me a guy like that is hauling lumber on the weekends?
"your vehicle needs to be efficient by law, unless your vehicle is super inefficient then no worries there big guy"
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
It won't stop until we treat anything with the title "truck" as a real truck. CDL and weightstations.
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.
Link or source?
https://www.meche.engineering.cmu.edu/_files/images/research-groups/whitefoot-group/WS-FootprintFuelEconomy-EP.pdf?shem=sswnst
https://me.engin.umich.edu/news-events/news/cafe-standards-could-mean-bigger-cars-not-smaller-ones/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/10/how-cafe-killed-compact-trucks-and-station-wagons/?shem=sswnst
https://www.transportpolicy.net/standard/us-light-duty-fuel-economy-and-ghg/