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"Jeff Strickland" <beerman@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<10068o27q7hm7da@corp.supernews.com>...
> "John Beardmore" <wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:DHTg9XixJvAAFwqu@wookie.demon.co.uk...
> > In article <1005rh2oa19itbe@corp.supernews.com>, Jeff Strickland
> > <beerman@yahoo.com> writes
> > >"Don Quijote" <donquijote1111@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > >news:d82348eb.0401100824.32fbfea5@posting.google.com...
>  
> > >Anti-social SUV drivers? You are the anti-social element that I see here,
> > >not the SUV drivers.
> >
> > A conclusion you have to reach for to be consistent with the other views
> > you express.
> >
> >
> Not really.
> 
> I never propose that SUVs should be banned. I agree that they are a poor
> choice of personal transportation, but people that buy them have to pay for
> the gas, not me. I agree that we can do other things to move SUV buyers into
> products that are more environmentally sound, but I think we should develop
> those products and ween the SUV buyers away from the addiction they have
> today into the addictin that makes more sense.
> 
> I would never stoop so low as to call SUV ownership "anti-social", nor would
> I call for people to abandon their SUVs without offering them a replacement.

I never called them antisocial, but the fragment I quoted did. The
fact that they hide behind tinted windows doesn't help them either.

As for the replacement, *America should be opened to every car big and
small made around the world*, not the way it is now, where you can't
get most small cars available to the world.

Regarding safety, training and comprehensive enforcement, beyond the
profit-making speeding ticket, should do the trick. Or perhaps some
special license should be required.

And of course, the Law of the Jungle should be replaced by Traffic
Laws... ;)