Comment Re:It's only *your* SUVs that are bad. Ours are fi (Score 2) 301
"The vote was called by Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who has argued that SUVs are dangerous and bad for the environment. About 1.3m residents of central Paris were eligible to vote. However they will not be affected by the result as street-parking for local residents will remained unchanged."
I don't think the pedestrian mowed over by a SUV feels any better knowing it was driven by a resident. And damage to the environment is from miles driven/gas used, not where the owner lives.
But, typical politics. Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax someone else's SUV.
I'd be happy to charge (European) SUV owners extra (I don't really give a shit about the US ones, I don't live there) because in European cities SUV owners practically always park in one and a half parkings spaces simply because these damn things are usually too big for a regular parking space. On top of that they also often require somewhere between one and a quarter to one and one and a half lanes to get anywhere in cities around here forcing anybody on a two lane street coming the opposite way to park their car somewhere to allow one those monstrosities to pass. Muppets who want to tear up the road network far more than necessary with a 3-5 metric ton SUV, pollute far more than they have to and generally make a bloody nuisance of themselves with expensive fuel guzzling SUVs can surely also easily afford pay an extremely generous premium for that privilege.