Re: If everyone would drive GEO metros

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From: Jeff Strickland
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:55

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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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> > > 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
> >
> > I drive those "smaller" vehicles because they make sense to me, and I
say,
> > "So what?" to the behemoths. I am not threatened by them because I know
how
> > to be a defensive driver. The issue that you have skimmed over is that
all
> > SUVs are not behemoths, but I have never seen a list that describes
which
> > SUVs are a problem and which are OK. All I have ever seen is ranting and
> > raving that SUVs (presumably all of them) are rolling death traps, and
this
> > is clearly a misrepresentation of the truth, if not a flat out lie.
>
> You may be a very defensive driver, but surviving those behemoth SUVs
> zigzaging around you is a matter of luck. So good luck!
>
> Let's learn from Big Brother and keep the heat on... ;)
>
> With enough of that kind of thing, even antisocial SUV drivers might
> find the disapproval associated w/driving their vehicles too much to
> take. If the campaign seems far-fetched, don't forget that the U.S.
> government produced similar propaganda during WWII. (My favorite
> slogan: "Should brave men die so you can drive?")
>
> http://www.mowabb.com/ai/archives/2003_01_14.html


Anti-social SUV drivers? You are the anti-social element that I see here,
not the SUV drivers.

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From: "Jeff Strickland" <beerman@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: If everyone would drive GEO metros
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:55:58 -0800
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