• neo [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    it’s partly this, but it’s also EPA regulations that basically allow these cars to be bigger. The larger their footprint, the lower their gas mileage has to be. Automakers can make a large, low mileage car (easily hitting the gas mileage requirement) without being penalized per sale.

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      4 months ago

      The ancaptain answer to that would be slash and burn deregulation, but better regulations that didn’t allow that kind of bullshit upward trajectory would obviously be better.