Typical response from SUV driver 4547Please provide a cite if you don't mind. Here is one: and another " US cars and light trucks alone consume about as much energy as domestic oil producers extract. Throw...
What happened to freedom of choice? If the owner is willing to pay for the gas burned then so be it, let them drive wahtever they want to. It's not my problem. So long as the vehicle isn 't spewing smoke and smelling bad I really couldn't care less what anyone else drives.
As far as fossil fuel use... The majority of our fossil fuel use in this country is not for automobiles, much less the soccer moms shuttling their kids around town driving relatively few miles. Ever since the tree huggers end of station wagons with CAFE there has beena boom in SUVs. It's the logical solution to the problem with CAFE and unrealistic mileage requirements for a full-size station wagon. So be it, the tree huggers did it to themselves, so let 'em suffer.
Oh, by the way I drive a '68 Galaxie and put 18,000 miles on it last year. My best mileage was about 16.5, and typically I get 13.5-14.5 MPG. No one ever complains about how I drive a 'gas guzzler every day', though it has been suggested that I get a more economical beater car for the winter at least. I would be happy to drive a more fuel efficient vehicle as a daily driver, but I can't afford insurance on two vehicles. It costs a lot more to insure a beat to hell POS econo-box than it does to insure my '68 so I just drive the '68 every day year round. It's more reliable and also cheaper, even factoring in the fuel mileage and that it burns 93 octane. Of course I live in NJ, the state with the highest insurance premiums in the country.
Cory
