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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: joseph krinsky who wrote (242287)3/26/2002 2:02:29 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
"The blames lies on the people who buy them (SUVs)." How about the blame lies with the companies that produce and market them so effectively that folks traded in their BMW and Mercedes for BMW and Mercedes SUVs. What happened during the gas crunches in CA (72, 78). People abandoned big cars for compacts. You couldn't find a gas guzzler. Gas sold for over 2 dollars a gallon. YOu had to pump it yourself. Over the next couple of decades, the price of gas decreased, and the size of cars once again increased to the relatively enormous SUVs. The populace just falls in line and goes along with whatever is going on. People don't decide what will be built and sold, they are lemmings who just start buying it after it's been drummed into their heads that they really, really have to have it.
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