Reply #4: In all fairness...

[OhioNerd]

In all fairness, there's no point in being too bummed out because vehicles over 10,000lbs are still exempt. Unless of course you don't really understand how big that is.

The Hummer H1 is over 10k and therefore exempt? So what? It's a commercial vehicle favored by armies, forest service agencies and the like. Sure there are a few being used for promotional/advertising purposes and another few being used by overpaid hollywood actors, but that's the exception that proves the rule. Besides which, if you removed every non-military H1's from the road, you'd be hard pressed to show a reduction in fuel consumption without going to a really ridiculous amount of decimal places.

What else is exempt? Probably Chassis/Cab vehicles. I used to own one. It was a big Chevy pickup truck with a Reading utility bed. That's the big boxy thing with all the doors on it and a ladder rack up top. That thing only weighed 6500lbs.

My central point is that 10,000lbs is a LOT of weight, and you'd have to have a truly enormous and most likely special purpose vehicle to exceed it. In other words, NOT the "Soccer Mom" type of SUVs, that generally weigh in at less than half of that. In other words, the glass is NOT half-empty.