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Article #1130Re: If everyone would drive GEO metros
From: John Beardmore
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:46
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:46
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In article <100dv9p3qq7d1b0@corp.supernews.com>, Jeff Strickland <beerman@yahoo.com> writes >> I'm not suggesting that the vehicle shouldn't meet the need - just that >> the vehicle selected should be appropriate to the task, at least most of >> the time. >> >> Over the years I've had all sizes of vehicle from Nissan Micra to 7500kg >> truck. If I need a lot of tools I don't take the Micra. If I'm >> commuting, I don't take the truck. >> >> > >Exactly. And families that own a large SUV probably to the same thing -- Some may. >the >commuter gets in the fuel efficient car for the long drive to the office >while the other spouse drives the SUV to do errands and haul the kids to >soccer practice. Yet still we see so many SUV trips with just a driver. > During the 99.9% of the time the SUV is doing stuff that >you never see, maybe it is pulling a horse trailer or a boat, or just >hauling around 8 kids. Doesn't seem very likely that random observation would produce such skewed results though ! Funny. They must be doing stuff we never see all the time we aren't looking at them. J/. -- John Beardmore
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