Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Fat Cars Kill

I realize no one reads my blog. Hopefully enough people read this article on Slate (or even better the referred paper) to start to get this into our collective conscious:

The heavier the car, the more dangerous it is to everyone on the road that is not in that car.

If someone wants to drive around in a tank to protect themselves/their children, that should be their prerogative, but they should have to pay the cost to the rest of us for their scary vehicle. I love the idea of a tax of, say $0.25 for each pound over 2500 lbs per year as part of registration. People would think twice if it cost $1000 to register their 6500 lb. SUV every year. Even better, reverse it to credit below weight down to the cost of registration, so that if you had a 2200 lb car you could get $75 off registration every year, which would mean SUV drivers subsidizing people who they are endangering!

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