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"Jeff Strickland" <beerman@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<vvrq998d9m6550@corp.supernews.com>...
> Your penchant for lumping all SUVs under a single umbrella is problematic
> for me to get onboard with your complaints about them. You lump all SUVs
> from the miserly Honda CRV and Toyota Rav4 to the behemoth Suburban and
> Excursion into the same group, or at least you fail to distinguish between
> the miserly models and the guzzlers.
> 
> You have no idea what that SUV that you are complaining about right now was
> carrying around yesterday, or even an hour ago, or what it will be doing in
> an hour from now. You are clueless about what the needs are of the families
> that drive SUVs, any SUV. You see a woman driving one to the nail salon, and
> call it wasteful, but you have no idea that she just dropped two kids off at
> the elementary school, another at the middle school, and one at the high
> school. You don't know what the family needs that vehicle for when you are
> not looking at it with disgust. You think that because YOU don't need an
> SUV, then nobody needs them. You blame the consumer for having needs, you
> blame the automakers for meeting those needs. What you ignore is that you
> created the SUV market place by shutting down the stationwagons of the '60s
> and '70s. You (environmentalists in genreal, not you in particular) shut
> down a vehicle market that caused polution and was decried as being
> behemoth. The polution issues needed to be addressed, and this effort on
> your part was a worthy one. But, a byproduct of that was to shift car buyers
> over into the truck market where the pollution efforts were not applied. You
> effectively shot yourself in the foot, and complain today that you need
> crutches to walk. Now, you want to start over again to force people into a
> market place that does not suit them, and they will seek a new market that
> will not suit you. The cycle will repeat itself again and again.
> 
> The lesson here is to find a way to give buyers the products they want and
> still reduce the harm to the environment. We don't want Geo Metros, they
> simply do not meet our needs. We want the SUVs and the new crossover models
> that you haven't hit yet, but I am sure that is just an oversight ou your
> part. since we want this size of vehicle, then we need to work on a power
> source that will be appropriate. Fuel Cells are expected to work well here,
> and Hybrids should do farely well too. Both of these technologies are more
> enviro friendly and are not very far over the horizon, perhaps 3 ~ 5 years
> at best, maybe as long as 12 ~ 15.

True. Kudos for the Liberty and similar models. But shame on the big
behemoths. The issue here is SAFETY and they are a THREAT TO SMALLER
VEHICLES, and, besides, since you claim that they are TRUCKS they
should be required a TRUCK LICENSE and their drivers be TRAINED like
TRUCK DRIVERS and the SUVs should be driven the way the TRUCKS do, not
in the RECKLESS, AGGRESSIVE, PREDATORY way they zigzag around us. It's
a jungle out there, boy... ;)