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The Reckless Policies That Helped Fill Our Streets With Ridiculously Large Cars
29 Apr 2024 | Abstracted from VOX
"Dangerous, polluting SUVs and pickups took over America. Lawmakers are partly to blame."
"Bulky SUVs and pickup trucks - which have themselves steadily added pounds and inches - now comprise more than four out of every five new cars sold in the US...One of Congress's most consequential moves was creating the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards...CAFE has two of them: one for passenger cars... a separate, more lenient standard for ''light trucks''..."
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