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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
The solution is to price petrol at it's real costs.
When motorists have to choose between eating and driving all over creation in V8 4x4s, the demand for efficiency will finally go up.
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To some extent only.
Mostly it just ends in bigger donations to the worlds largest charity.
Our gas is heavily taxed so it is 2½ times as expensive as yours but it does little to entice the people to drive economically. (Speeding tickets are far more effective...)
Economy decisions seem only to be made at car buying time, and it is the economy of purchase price only; so people rather buy the greenest heavy 4x4 SUV over a sedan like a Subaru WRX STi, which gets relatively bad FE for its 'class', but equal or better to the big monster.
The reason: ungreen purchase tax.
But these taxes are not just differentiated per car type but also per country.
Subaru WRX STi purchase price in our proud nation of Holland:
€90,095
Subaru Nederland - WRX STI
Idem in that 'faraway rogue state' called Belgium:
€42,295
Subaru België - WRX STI
Ehm. Raah. Raaaahhh! Raaaaaaaahhhh!
Of course our tax means to ban polluting cars. That is a good thing, right?
Damn you Subaru for selling the dirty WRXes over here and shipping the clean ones south!
Wind direction over here is predominantly southwest...
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2011 Honda Insight + HID, LEDs, tiny PV panel, extra brake pad return springs, neutral wheel alignment, 44/42 PSI (air), PHEV light (inop), tightened wheel nut.
lifetime FE over 0.2 Gigameter or 0.13 Megamile.
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For education go to people unlike yourself.