Which pollutes more: a new SUV or a 10-year-old conventional vehicle?
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The environmental organization Possible has carried out a comparison between the two options and the results are shocking
        • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
          51·
          1 year ago

          Poorly written regulations with giant gaping loopholes for companies to skirt caused this.

          You really blame the companies for following the law as written?

            • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
              21·
              1 year ago

              Enforcement is also the EPA’s responsibility, not the companies.

              And you can’t enforce the ‘spirit’ of the law. That’s not how laws work. That would be soooo easily abused.

      • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, because regulatory capture is inevitable under our system.

        Capitalism is always going to end back here if companies are allowed to grow to the point they can exert political influence

      • girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’d honestly say it’s a bit of both. The regulations affecting this are pretty terrible and allow for the loopholes that are creating the issues we’re seeing today. But from my perspective, reducing these regulations won’t solve the problem. I would argue that we need both incentives and regulations that address this directly. That way, any companies that are still producing larger vehicles just to shirk regulations would be doing it at their own expense and for (hopefully) a niche market that still wants larger vehicles.