Posted by Epoxy (66.26.80.19) on November 29, 2002 at 14:55:05:
In Reply to: it's ridiculous posted by Hayley (172.157.171.4) on November 28, 2002 at 02:53:05:
> I live in Orange County, in Southern California, and EVERYONE has them. WHY they need a huge car for such a small, non-traveling or heavy-load carrying family unit, I have no idea, but atleast they feel cool I guess. And the fact that they pollute a lot and take a small fortune to fill the tank is just more reason to hate them.
OK, and how exactly has this impacted your life from say, 10 years ago, when SUVs were not yet popular? Is it harder to get to work? Have traffic fatalities or accidents increased? Is it harder to breathe, or have lung cancer rates increased? Is overall air quality lower?
I don't have the answers to those questions, but my guess is that you don't either, nor do 99% of the other SUV-haters. They hate them out of some sort of general principle and then create all these seemingly valid reasons for their hatred, without ever checking to see if the reasons are even true.