182
[article] EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives as US pick-up trucks flood into Europe (www.transportenvironment.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
23 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 39 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

But who is going to buy one? Be a nightmare in many European cities and towns, just too big for places built for horse and carriage. They just drink fuel, so are expensive to run. Plus, everyone will think/know you are a knob head.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 10 child comments
    •
  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    People will buy them and bitch and moan to their politicians the streets don't accommodate their over sized truck thats is spotless clean with an empty bed.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    assholes will

    and as such, they should be treated like assholes. treat their vehicle like assholes. treat them like assholes. they are endangering you, they are affecting your life, make sure you affect theirs as well and try to guide them towards not being an asshole by showing them consequences for their actions

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    As an American, nobody has to buy them at first. "Light trucks" like pickups and SUVs weren't always big in the US, but because they were more profitable, aggressive advertising campaigns turned SUVs from being something mocked for being unsafe, unwieldy, and inefficient into being what nearly everyone drives. I hate it. Infrastructure has shifted to accommodate them to the detriment of everyone else. Don't let it happen to you. The last several years the top 5 best selling vehicles in the US have been pickups. Not because anyone needs them, but because advertising has turned them into a cultural staple, despite their inconvenience.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's hard in Europe as everything is constrained by pre-existing buildings. There just isn't the space to expand many roads without knocking stuff down that has been there hundreds of years. In the cities and towns, it's buildings, in the country it is stone walls.

    Though I would also road tax the bloody things extra.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    They won't give a single shit about anyone else, they finally are the big hard man and no one can push them about. Take that, Scott Murphy! Who's pushing me into dog poo now!

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent