1 in 3 cars sold in US is a SUV. Cheap gas & hi profit margins trumps all arguments as clever auto engineers are told to focus on oomph (hp) instead of fuel efficiency or lighter cars. "Stop Buying Trucks" h/t @myrrlyn docs.google.com/document/d/1-K… carboncounter.com 
There are now over 200 million SUVs around the world, up from about 35 million in 2010. 1 in 3 cars sold in both the world's largest car markets - US & China - is a SUV. Auto profits trump #ClimateEmergency.
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Dismantling Big Auto is as big a #climate challenge as dethroning King Coal.
Flip the mad global SUV boom. If such rapid phase-in of 165 million fossil vehicles in a decade was possible, a Green boom is too? SUVs show what happens if consumers & 'Natl champion' firms in Factory E Asia/N Europe/N America coordinate in 🌍supplychains
Cars are the largest chunk of global trade & embody globalization. Every manuf power — Factory N America/EU/Asia — has overcapacity issues ie over-invested in ICE. Can't overestimate effect of those stranded assets/lost jobs on pol econ as EV's boom 2020s pier.or.th/wp-content/upl…
What made SUV's surge globally post-Crash? Is it low interest rates for car loans? Big Auto profit margins? Changing consumer preferences & mimicry? perverse fuel emission regulations? If anyone has a clue, please add to this interesting thread.
Aerodynamic drag on a car scales w speed squared. So difference in fuel use bw driving at 60 or 120 km/h=(120/60)^2 ie FOUR FOLD! So imp that when oil becomes political, govts mandate speed limits. US govt in WW2 put it at 35mph; after 1973 crisis at 55mph withouthotair.com/cA/page_259.sh…
Slow clap for Germany's parliament (& BigAuto lobbies) for rejecting any speed limits on the autobahn. Calling it "paternalistic", "ideological" & "total surveillance". So more fuel consumption, more deaths. Inexplicable. Like US aversion to gun control.
"The car wastes more time than it saves and creates more distance than it overcomes." Did Andre Gorz have a time-machine in 1973? unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-so…
Auto industry transformed after 1973 Oil Shock. Crisis (↑ prices ~600%) conc minds of OECD countries to reduce middle east dependency. Enforced Speed limits (fuel use scales with speed^2) & lighter cars. With Transport biggest chunk of CO2, both imp again sites.lafayette.edu/egrs352-sp14-c…
During WW2, "the U.S. Office of Defense Transportation established a national 35 mph "Victory Speed Limit" to conserve gasoline and rubber for the American war effort, from May 1942 to August 1945, when the war ended."@rydriskelltate
Can the Dutch stop engineering Jakarta from sinking into the sea & start advising Germany & Texas how to impose speed limits without igniting rebellion.
10y of speeding the wrong way. Post-Crash auto bailouts should have been conditional on BigAuto decarbonizing. Instead, Transport became the biggest chunk of emissions in rich countries.While developing countries built roads & urbanized for cars. What now?
