this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2023
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Time to start taxing vehicles by the height of their driver's seat or the bottom edge of the wind shield, modern trucks are land yachts for middle aged children. A "pickup" that seats 6 but has a 4'x5' bed is just a worse minivan, it fits less people, holds less cargo, uses more fuel and has headlight that sit at eyelevel for every other driver on the road.
Just increasing the existing taxes should be enough. Being more expensive and consuming more fuel they are already subject to more taxes than regular cars, so increasing these existing taxes will proportionally affect more the consumer of these killing machines. Specially gas; still too much subsidy because so much of our society is now predicated on cheap gas.