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Originally Posted by fredzy
I've spent a ton of time in Europe. Fuel is bananas expensive, cities are super cramped and vehicles with bigger engines are taxed like crazy. Those are the main reasons smaller, efficient vehicles are ubiquitous. I'm saying that if it was as easy and affordable for them to own CUVs, SUVs and trucks as it is for us they would gladly get into those. Except maybe in the city.
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Problem is you can't meet any semblance of CO2 neutrality with cheap fuel. There has to be an incentive for people to get into more economical cars, build sustainable housing, etc., otherwise as you say we'd all live in 1M sq. ft. houses heated by burning whatever wood we can still cut down and would all drive a semblance of 6x6 G-Wagen.
Also, fuel is actually cheaper in Europe atm than it is in some western states (AZ, NV, CA, among others).
If we didn't have cramped cities built a thousand years ago, had a different tax system and didn't care about our footprint, we'd be the united states
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