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A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

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1336 points kwindla | 1 comments | 25 Apr 25 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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aidenn0 ◴[25 Apr 25 16:56 UTC] No.43795946[source]▶
For anyone curious, if you made a similarly sized gas-powered pickup with an i4 engine, it would be penalized more than a full-sized pickup for being too fuel inefficient, despite likely getting much better mileage than an F-150 because, since 2011, bigger cars are held to a lesser standard by CAFE[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy...

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MostlyStable ◴[25 Apr 25 17:26 UTC] No.43796306[source]▶
Example #5621 that a simple carbon tax would be miles better than the complex morass of regulations we currently have.
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bgnn ◴[25 Apr 25 19:39 UTC] No.43797777[source]▶
why can't we just tax the gas at the pump? this is, at least, what I'm used to in Europe.
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brianwawok ◴[25 Apr 25 19:40 UTC] No.43797791{3}[source]▶
We do. But it’s a super regressive tax. Lots of very poor people depend on a bad MPG car to get to work and live.
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1. bgnn ◴[25 Apr 25 21:45 UTC] No.43798845{4}[source]▶
that's a different problem. US cities used to have good publhc transport, but the urvanization policies since 50s is car-centric. plus, because of the American cars having huge engines they have bad MPG. The current situation US is in is nothing to do with the tax regime.