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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
We tried that 30 years ago. People largely did nothing, and bought SUVs.
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Yep, it is amazing what short memories people have. When gas was up to $4 a gallon SUV/Minivan/Pickup Truck sales fell to the floor. Everyone started buying small cars and hybirds.
But, once gas came back down to < $2 a gallon everything went back to normal. Do people really think gas will stay at $2 for much longer. It can't the dwindling supply and growing demand will cause it to continue going up.
Yes, some people need and SUV or Minivan or Pickup trunk. But, I see so many people commuting to work with 1-AIS (ass i seats) in their SUVs and Hummers. That is just not needed. If everyone with 1-AIS was in a smart car or even smaller 3 wheeled enclosed motorcycle type thing the reduction of fuel use and CO2 output would be tremendous. Also, traffic would be much better. Our highways could have an extra lane on the same width road which would increase capacity by 25% or so in urban areas.
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