Australia’s government has released a new transport climate policy. But it doesn’t deal with the problem of car bloat: the main driver of rising emissions.
This is what happened with my family. We had a VW GTI and a Golf… when the kiddo came along the wife wanted an SUV so if we got in an accident the kid wouldn’t be automatically dead by one of these fucking monstrosities… I think I’m slowly convincing her that a car might be safe, but VW doesn’t make the Golf for USA anymore…
I feel like maybe a path forward would be a long the lines of what someone else has said. Make vehicle registration cost more depending on how big it is… but who knows…
Now to top it all off because of America’s obsession with big vehicles there is still a limited selection of small hatchbacks in the EV zone…
A big truck should require a CDL, maybe not the same class of CDL a tractor-trailer requires, but a significant bar to entry. Automotive lobbies have probably kept this from happening yet.
This is what happened with my family. We had a VW GTI and a Golf… when the kiddo came along the wife wanted an SUV so if we got in an accident the kid wouldn’t be automatically dead by one of these fucking monstrosities… I think I’m slowly convincing her that a car might be safe, but VW doesn’t make the Golf for USA anymore…
I feel like maybe a path forward would be a long the lines of what someone else has said. Make vehicle registration cost more depending on how big it is… but who knows…
Now to top it all off because of America’s obsession with big vehicles there is still a limited selection of small hatchbacks in the EV zone…
A big truck should require a CDL, maybe not the same class of CDL a tractor-trailer requires, but a significant bar to entry. Automotive lobbies have probably kept this from happening yet.