Why is the Montana strawman always an example here? Almost no one lives in Montana and no one cares about vehical sizes in Montana, except _maybe_ in Bozeman proper. Let it go, no one is talking about Montana or the Dakotas.
The negative effects of vehicle size and dependence on infrastructure and society are intimately tied to where people live.
> Urban areas make up only 3 percent of the entire land area of the country but are home to more than 80 percent of the population.
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2017/08/rural-america....