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"Don Quijote" <donquijote1111@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Jeff Strickland" <beerman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > "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.
>

The next paragraph is about safety, and the single largest reason that the
world's offering of small cars is not available here is safety.


> 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... ;)

I feel no predatory behavior on the part of other drivers. The law of the
jungle seems to be working just fine to me.