Cars that get excellent gas mileage, cheap enough that poor people can afford them.
And the busy-bodies hate the very idea of them.
The permanently outraged are stuck on permanent outrage. There is no appeasing them. We have to learn to ignore them. You don’t try to decipher noise, you adjust your squelch and tune it out.
Irrational people will do rhetorical pretzels to justify irrational behavior.
The most important thing for them (and by inference, for everybody) is survival in a crash due to their driving incompetence and/or inattention.
It's not an individual choice, ya know.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.” -- C. S. Lewis
The Elite want roads that are empty of everybody except the Elite, so they hate affordable cars