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Originally Posted by esquire
For what it's worth, I would be OK with that.
But as I said before, switching to a smaller, more fuel efficient vehicle is probably the easiest, least painful change one could make in this regard.
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In a binary view, probably. But that's failing to understand a whole litany of variables including people's incomes (A brand new truck is less polluting than a 15 year old smaller car) Personal circumstances such as having kids or, say, having to travel distances in inclement weather to take care of relatives, just to name a few. There are a ton of ways to reduce your environmental footprint. We take the big SUV downtown every day but there's usually myself, the S.O. and our neighbor in the car. So that's three people in one car, if we all jammed into a Yaris it would be even more efficient, yes. But at some point, our personal choices take over. And that's for everyone.