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It’s time for Americans to embrace small cars (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe if they stopped fucking up the tax incentives on bigger vehicles vs smaller:

https://mileiq.com/blog-en-us/section-179-vehicles-deduction

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Yep, lobbyists from the car industry made this happen after the GMC bankruptcy. Huge cars are a direct result of this legislation