[thegrim33]

I feel like this would fall into the "foot in the door" political pattern I've been seeing everywhere where they're just trying to get their foot in the door with some minimal legislation. Whether it's supposedly "for the kids" or "for the environment" or whatever, they're just trying to set a precedent with some legislation that's really minimal (right now) so it's hard to argue against.

However, once they get their way, once they've set their precedent, then they just spend years pushing it further and further to get to where they really want to be. Maybe one year they lower the weight limit. The next they lower the size limit. Maybe they start issuing hard to acquire "permits" to own a "large" vehicle. They they redefine what "large" means the next year. Maybe they start demanding new fees to own large car the next year. And so on, and so on.

What's the saying? Boiling the frog alive? They'll never at any point make a jump that's too far that would cause people to resist it. Every step is just one more tiny little tightening that people will begrudgingly accept. I see this pattern literally everywhere.