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this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2023
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USA here. Can we please just start taxing fuel appropriately and remove subsidies? If fuel just cost what it actually costs (like the EU) then most of the problem goes away because only people who actually get work done with their truck's will afford to run them and only while getting a job done. Currently 2/3 of the heavy duty trucks I see are grocery haulers for little boys.