(I hope this isn't duplicated. I forgot to delete the trailor, 1st time
around)
Ach, I don't like this Wendell and don't think what you said is well
thought out or relevant to the mgs@autox.team.net list nor does it provide
irrelevant amusement like some lawyer or cat discussions (and I allow a cat
to reside in my house).
Don't blame the Left for producing a vehicle which is used in cities to
drive <1 mile to buy a quart of milk or drive 3 miles to drop kids off at
school and go shopping (notice I said this and do not complain about SUV's
where they are useful), is less economic in gas, in size, in producing
congestion at intersections (no fooling, an analysis of tie-ups at
intersections has shown that SUV's and other large cars have increased the
time for one car to pass through an intersection leaving a line forming
when the light turns red), and has more of a tendency to tip in emergencies
(yea, I buy this argument having seen SUVs tip on sharp curves), and more
of a tendency to kill people in the other car (in case of a crash).
SUV hatred, IMO, comes from the unnecessary usage of SUV's where they are
inappropriate for size. How many of you have an elephant for a home
pet...just doesn't make sense does it? So why is it so hard to understand
that SUV's in cities don't make a great deal of sense either.
Besides, gasoline is a market commodity. When prices go up due to
scarceness, I pay. If a segment of the driving community (and SUV's count
for >50% of American vehicles now sold) in my opinion is getting away with
lowered standards because their vehicle is not officially considered a car,
I do feel the chip building on my shoulder.
Tell me why Porshe or Cadillac should make an SUV. Is it because they want
to tweek the heads of the leftists. Use your head.
Please, blame the appropriate entity: the ones making the $$$$.
(Enough said but there is more in waiting.)
Bill
76B
in more than a fair At 11:43 PM 1/20/2003 EST, N3KKE@aol.com wrote:
>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
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