A small group of ultra-wealthy drive giant trucks that use 10 miles to the gallon?

that's bs. If the average American was representative of the average world citizen, we'd need 4 planet Earths

judging by the average car size in the USA vs rest of the world, the real significant amount aren't doing shit and actually like the lack of regulations
but don't worry, it's not American's fault, the real significant amount of whole humanity isn't doing shit for anything, we are a trashy species