Comment on The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier.

• applejacks@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  well yea, that’s obviously why they do it.

  doesn’t make it good.

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Change the laws. If it is a truck you should have to get a CDL, have to go to weight stations, cant drive on the parkway etc. If it is a car it should have to follow the emission rules cars have. There is no point in having standards if we make exceptions so big you can drive a cough…sports utility vehicle…cough through.

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    • applejacks@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I am sure car companies spend a ton of money lobbying politicians to never do this.

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Fine whatever. I will start leaving notes in the bed of gas guzzling pickups that say “sorry about the micropenis you feel you need to compensate for”

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    • random65837@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If it is a truck you should have to get a CDL, have to go to weight stations, cant drive on the parkway etc.

      Literally the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. You clearly don’t know what a CDL is, and for that, actual trucks that require them have had emmsision systems for a long time now.

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Boring…sorry you were shortchanged down there.

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      • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You clearly don’t know what a CDL is

        Could you give the rest of us a quick education on what that is?

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