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Let’s ban the advertising of SUVs as an easy first step then let’s start working on regulating them out of existence. The emissions and child deaths are unacceptable and these aren’t the handy farm vehicles people pretend.
Step 1) sign this petition.
Step 2 is harder, but pushing for weight based road tax/pricing will force manufacturers and consumers to reconsider how big of a vehicle they actually need, or if they even need one at all. It’s been talked about for years but now is the time.
I know somebody writing up a petition for this in the U.K., and we’re all gonna sign it when it comes through. https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20201015-government-u-turn-as-france-slaps-weight-tax-on-heavy-cars-suvs-climate-pollution
#FBPE @Philsturgeon Weight based charging would favour fossil fuel over heavy batteries ...
@TimWardCam @Philsturgeon Not really, some of the heaviest vehicles are combustion SUVs. It would encourage efficiency over large batteries (which are getting lighter as technology improves btw)
@Philsturgeon The Netherlands has had weight based road tax since 1926.
@Philsturgeon If you take the gross weight of a Range Rover, you would pay €2848 for one with a petrol engine, or €4892 for one with a diesel engine. Yearly.
@Philsturgeon I wrote to my MP about this https://m.me.uk/robin-walker-letter-wimbledon-thorneloe-walk/
@Philsturgeon so for years they offer incentives to people in the form of tax breaks, for buying EVs. Is this just a new way to get some of that money back? (EVs are actually pretty heavy because of the huge battery)
@scottearle @Philsturgeon given how much cheaper EVs are to run (if you can afford to buy one in the first place) I doubt it would make a significant difference.
@mathw @Philsturgeon that’s true - depending on how much the tax is (but I used to pay 5,000 THB/month on diesel and now pay an additional ~700 THB/month on electrons, so it’s a good point well made)
@scottearle nothing useful can be said about EVs on social media but my thoughts are here. My electric van weighs less than SUVs, and there’s more SUVs being sold than EVs, so I believe the conversation has to be focused on weight and emissions not drive train. https://philsturgeon.com/unf-king-the-climate-electric-cars/
@Philsturgeon I’m not arguing against EVs, but it’s more complicated than “electricity good, dinosaur juice bad”. I recently bought an EV, so that’s which side of the argument I fall on if you look at putting your money where your mouth is. My point was that a small EV weighs approaching what an SUV does, that’s all
@scottearle nobody said electricity good dinosaur juice bad, so I don’t know why you’re saying that
Weight based road taxes apply to all vehicles so if there’s a heavy EV it’ll get penalised like a heavy car will. All cars are too heavy and they’re all getting heavier.
Making smaller cars cheaper and larger cars more expensive would carrot and stick that trend into reverse:
@Philsturgeon #Montreal should also do that. The weight of cars downtown has increased quite a bit over the last decade with its consequences on other people's safety, infrastructure maintenance, public space...
@Philsturgeon actually they already started an experiment in one district this year. But this is limited to those paying for a parking subscription as far as I understand. https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/grand-montreal/2023-05-02/stationnement-dans-rosemont-la-petite-patrie/des-vehicules-dorenavant-factures-selon-leur-poids.php
@Philsturgeon@mastodon.green great idea. Signed!
