Other businesses will also suffer. Case in point..my brother in law is a whole sale bait dealer and depends on a large pick-up to haul his minnow tanks..no puny econo-truck can do the job. However as pick-ups are also a major means of hauling fishing boats in these parts, I expect to see his business and well as other recreational businesses flounder.
All hail Lord Obama who will make our country into East German complete with crappy little government built cars.
One just has to look at Europe to see what happens.
First, you do not see home improvement stores in Europe because customers do not have vehicles that can pickup supplies for the do-it-yourselfer.
Second, delivery services are huge. Trucks are only owned by delivery companies that make money delivering large objects to people's homes. Those large objects include televisions, furniture, etc. In the US, we pick those things up ourselves with our SUV or pickup truck.
Oh, those delivery companies pay higher registration, insurance and road taxes on their trucks.
In the US, ranchers and farmers use pickup trucks for a wide variety of uses. They will either have to register these (expensive) as gas guzzlers and pay extra taxes on them or pay someone to come and move hay around for them.
The average person does not understand how these rules will fundamentally affect the way Americans live. Say goodbye to Home Depot, Lowes, etc. Say goodbye to Best Buy and large electronics retailers. Small mom & pop feedmills will be replaced by a few large chain feedmills that will deliver to farmers on certain days of the week as they make their route.
Just think about all the things Americans do that utilizes their large SUVs and pickups and imagine all that gone tomorrow.
Of course, Obama and the liberals want this to happen. They do not want you to have large homes that you expand yourself. They do not want weekend farmers who have a few head of CO2-producing cattle and horses for fun.