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Big cars are dead weight dragging down climate policy

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Big cars are dead weight dragging down climate policy

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Australia’s government has released a new transport climate policy. But it doesn’t deal with the problem of car bloat: the main driver of rising emissions.

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  If SUVs were a country, they’d be the sixth most polluting, and banning/regulating them wouldn’t be pushing the responsibility onto consumers.
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