• CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
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    I bet you in Indiana it’s still 50% (or more) stupid sized trucks or SUVs. Higher gas prices will:

    • force people to carpool
    • buy more fuel efficient cars (literally happened everywhere else decades ago)
    • buy EVs
    • take public transit

    And then the very small minority who can’t do those things, they pay the higher prices for their gas guzzlers.

    Why do you think monster pickup trucks only exist in the USA? Pickups exist in other counties, but they’re sensibly sized with smaller engines. Other counties figured out many decades ago that it’s the most efficient (cost-wise and emission-wise) to use a vehicle appropriate to the job, instead of getting the biggest extended-bed, 4 door crew cab, 5.8 litre 8 cylinder truck with oversized offroading tires to pickup the damn groceries.