In a message dated 1/20/03 2:00:51 PM Eastern Standard Time,
idcb@airborne.com writes:
> This SUV hatred is truly bizarre.
Not if you consider the track record of the Left. There's a lot more to it
that you probably haven't noticed.
Notice that they don't attack the trucking industry, which accounted for in
excess of 5,000 "needless" deaths last year (stats from a trucking magazine I
picked up while stranded by my SUV's dying electric fuel pump in Richmond,
Georgia last year). Any cry for smaller, less-useful trucks from the Left?
Actually, there is, and they've sold it as "mainstream" by playing the
us-against-THEM card. Truckers are going to be paying big bucks for new
trucks this year that have some sort of environmentally-dubious "enhancement"
required by law. Upshot is that used trucks are going to be more valuable,
artificially. Is the Left going to be feeding the laid-off workers of Mack,
or Peterbilt, or the other truck manufacturers? Don't bet on it.
Wendell Hall
'72 B
'87 YJ
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