Owners of large SUVs and trucks in Colorado could pay more to fund pedestrian safety measures
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Good. I wish more people knew what a negative externality was. This isn’t government interference. It’s making the market work more efficiently by accounting for the true costs of big vehicles.
That's not as much as I was expecting.
Yep, should be much more to provide incentive for purchasing smaller vehicles
What sedan weighs almost 6000 lbs? My Elantra weighs almost 3000. Can't imagine a full-size sedan is double the weight?
Probably something like my Kia niro. It's a hatchback/small SUV but it is a battery phev.
A quick search tells me the Niro PHEV weighs about 3300 pounds. Meantime, my Bolt EUV (similar size BEV) tops out around 3700.
No shit? I thought it was much heavier than that with the battery. Thanks for the update.
Cafe and chicken?
Hadn't heard of these before. Would you happen to have some links for further reading?
Had to look up chicken tax myself; I had completely forgotten about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
What a ride. Chicken as a delicacy. "Those chickens can't be healthy." Weirdly named tariffs. Rhodes scholar from Arkansas. There's more but I need to eat.
Hope you're having chicken
Are the cars made of chicken?
Classic US. It's unsafe, would we prohibit? Noooo, muh freedom, we would only allow rich to buy.