Stop selling them then
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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If you would tax cars by weight, people would stop buying bigger cars and/or you’d have more money for road repairs.
Nah, people will just stop buying EVs and buy bigger ICE cars. Everyone's out for themselves now and a car to our leadbrained elders is like mold to JKR - a safe haven, a fortress.
Road degradation grows to the power of 4 with the weight of the vehicle: a car that weights 2 as much as another degrades the roads 16 times more. That seems to me like a good rule to guide vehicle taxing.
While I disagree with your point I love "Toad degradation"
To government: tax the hell of them
To private parking: only allow them in certain spaces (with big fines of their in other spaces) and charge them triple.
Ive printed some quick tire deflators for when I see them in the city.
I'd much rather drive my mom's tiny 1994 Nissan Sentra. Sure it ain't got airbags, hell the seatbelts done went to shit even. Fuck, tire shops laugh when we try to find 13 inch tires for it, we can only get boat trailer tires for it these days.
But the car is so small, it maneuvers almost like a souped up go-kart, and you can see everything around you. And honestly, I feel safer in a smaller maneuverable car with no functioning seatbelts, as long as I can at least see my surroundings.
besides the convenience of fitting well inside parking spaces and the better fuel efficiency.. when you were shopping for tires they were the cheapest in the store, and often by a wide margin--as they used those little tires in the advertisements to mislead customers needing larger and much more profitable sizes.
The Sentra is 4x100. You could easily find cheap, used wheels that will fit modern tire sizes.
Let me know if you want help.
Tbh I even have a set of 15" 4x100 steelies that I'm not using. lol
For whatever it's worth, I appreciate the thought and the offer, but we're good. We live on the Gulf Coast, so there's no shortage of boat trailer tires around the area.
It just gets kinda awkward silly weird when we tell them to install boat trailer tires on the car, they tend to get a bit of a chuckle, like when was the last time anyone saw a car with 13 inch tires anymore? 😂
It’s going to be hard to justify a giant car when dinner consists of one $30 egg. 👌