[Passage] It’s Time To Ban The Sale Of Pickup Trucks

If everyone was practical, then everyone would be driving minivans and Priuses. I drive a 20 year expedition that I treat like a truck. I only use it when I can't fit stuff in my full size sedan and it gets driven 2K miles a year, so I find it weird that people don't use their truck more. I only tow something once or twice a year since I don't own a boat anymore.

 

I agree to that. I grew up in the Pearland/Friendswood/Alvin area of Houston where basically every dude had a jacked up F150 or Chevy for the sole purpose of feeling like a badass driving up to school. I totally understand the cultural part, and I would tend to think that kids nowadays are probably not viewing that Truck culture as cool anymore in the same way so I think we've probably made some progress. More progress with kids than we have those now adults I'm sure.

What would be really great is if it could be much easier and cooler to have regular eco friendly cars or SUV's that had better hauling features where it was just super easy to stop by your neighborhood Uhaul on your way to Lowes and drop it off later that evening on your way to happy hour. That is now easy to do, but I feel like it could be even easier, and marketed better in lock step with car manufacturers. That could maybe make a dent in those people that just feel they need a truck even though they want to be better consumers of the environment, and be more "decluttered". I think there's alot that companies can do to innovate further to create at least some societal & cultural change around the need to consume with quantity.

 

The discussion is getting out of touch with how people view cars. It's always about status, whether it's feeling like the richest or fastest on the road or feeling like the king of the road.

Trucks are literally moving castles now that sedans crumple up like coke cans. It's an arms race between soccer mom minivans and getting the tallest gas guzzler out there for bubba to pay off for the next 15 years

 

...but what will men with small penises drive?

 

Dodge Challengers.

 

Did you read the whole thing?

What do you think of the proposed solution?

Serious replies only.

eta: if you're gonna get snarky, like this:

...you should probably not be running around calling your canoe a "boat", if the pics I remember are correct.

 

Authoritarian nonsense --- I like how it targets people they don't like for political reasons. If they were real about it they'd bad all cars.

 

Only fake liberals support authoritarian laws under the guise of environmental friendliness.

 

working with L Ron Hubbard and the sea org I ( shoulder shrug)passed to thetan level 8 and am now certified as a real liberal

 

This was posted before...


We're kinda boned with crazy gas prices and escalating climate change.

Maybe, just maybe it's because some cities are designed for cars over people?