I like how Ramen's first video after winning the mayoral seat was about being sick and tired of all the delays with bringing high speed rail to the people of LA, now let's see if she can figure out how to thread that needle and make it happen.
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It is not just the fault of consumers. Manufacturers and dealerships make substantially more money selling big rather than small.
This is such a stupid argument.
It is 100% the fault of consumers. If people didn't want larger vehicles, they wouldn't be paying more for them!
I hate capitalism and corporations as much as anyone else, but at some point you have to realize that a large group of people are indepedently total assholes.
It’s the fault of the manufacturers in the same way that sugar consumption or (taken to an extreme) tobacco is the fault of the manufacturers. Advertising. Decades of advertising, showing people doing tough, aspirational, and/or fun activities with their mega-truck.
There’s absolutely a really big component that is individual responsibility but advertising is there.
Also, the dearth of immensely practical station wagons and small cars doesn’t help.
They killed the fiesta,focus, and Subaru wagons. Ford doesnt make a car now except the mustang.
You cannot buy a small pickup. The Tacoma is massive now. The Maverick (idiot name) is not a pickup its a fwd car with a box.
The vehicle landscape is idiotic in the US. Sure now you can get a wrx wagon...CVT only 🤮🤮
All the good cars were made pre 2014.
It's not mainly a consumer fault because we are talking about a systemic problem. If the policymakers are creating an environment in which it is permitted to drive these huge deathtraps, the auto and gas companies will naturally sell them and put a tremendous amount of money into advertising to create the impression that a big SUV or Truck is useful and manly or whatever else, because they do make more profit selling huge gas guzzling tanks. You can think the individual is a dumb asshole, i agree, but on a wider societal level it's all about incentive structures.