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Pastimes : Anti- Sports- Utility- Vehicle (SUV) board. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (14)	8/13/1999 7:52:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 48

You know, that's what owning a SUV is all about. Getting out there, driving those old mining roads and RR ride of way. I've done it since I was a kid, except now I do it in one of the newer SUV's instead of the old gas hog station wagon or sedan I grew up with. Everyone talks about how little "need" people have for an SUV, I call that all B.S.! OK, maybe we don't need the extra ground clearance every day, but around once or twice a year here in Metro Denver we get a "real" snow. Maybe if the wife & I worked decent jobs with decent hours we could use public transportation(if we had a decent public transport system)or if the roads were cleared before 5 in the morning we could get by with a car. I don't know about the rest of the world, but where I live and how I live, I can't afford or park 2 vehicles for the wife, and two for me. We are affording and parking all we can. 1 SUV, 1 truck, 1 car. I wonder how many of the people who bitch about SUV's have ever been to any western state or looked at what the real world uses their SUV for? I know they see us at the grocery store putting one or two bags of groceries in the back of an afternoon, and a Yugo of Festiva, or VW bug would work just as well. They don't see my wife unloading the three cases of #10 cans & chafing dishes at her job at 4AM. Those three cases of big cans and 4 chafing dishes just barely fit in her Blazer, and that snow can be deep at those hours of the morning. No, I don't "need" the pickup when I get to go to a normal job of normal hours at a normal place, but some time ago, I used that very truck to chase down dirt roads over half of New Mexico. And, just no way I could have gotten the hay in anything less than a full size pick-up for that 1 week job I had last winter. How can so many people look around so much and see & understand little?