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Colorado is considering a bill that would allow people to drive adorable Japanese tiny-trucks on most of the state’s roads. US car manufacturers are fighting against the bill. (www.cpr.org)

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

What you want is a fuel/distance tax. You can from there have variations of passenger vehicles, work cans, and pickup trucks each having a maximum fuel to distance ratio.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

Potentially, sure. There are a number of ways it could be done. Eliminating specific MPG restrictions on subcompacts below a certain weight is what I'd start with, and slowly lower the weight for that category.

We could impose a large hurdle for vehicles below the 15th percentile economy for their class. If they try to bump a smaller car up a class, they harm the vehicles they actually design for that class.

There are lots and lots and lots of ways a good regulation could be structured.