To: miraje who wrote (15793 ) 3/20/2000 12:32:00 AM From: Brian P. Read Replies (3) | Respond to
You've got your facts wrong. SUV's have not had to meet the pollution control requirements of cars since they, by deliberate special exemption of Congress, have been classified as "trucks" (what a joke--whole lotta heavy duty work bein' done by those macho Joe Schmoe suburbans and their soccer moms). They pollute much more. They guzzle more than 50% as much fuel as an average car. Why should some suburban housewife get to pollute more than somebody else? Why does Joe Schmoe Suburban, stoked up on imbecilic, juvenile SUV commercials, need a friggin truck to tool around town and feel macho in? Just because people want their play toys? Why should people who drive normal size cars be exposed to the hazards of getting hit by these totally unnecessary, ridiculously big, deadly behemoths that are all over the road these days? And studies show that the fatality rate in SUV's is NOT lower than in cars--the rollover rate is HIGH--it is NOT miniscule--and offsets the advantages of having all that weight around you (that kills the other guy). And cars on the whole pollute less than in 1968 because your federal government that you so love to hate dragged the auto industry kicking and screaming every step of the way into designing cars that don't pollute. Looney?? It was one of the best things your government ever did. Americans are such spoiled babies. They want to drive their big gas-guzzling polluting play toys, cry like babies when the price of oil goes up, are oblivious to the fact that we create the lion's share of the world's pollution, and lecture the Chinese and the rest of the world about cutting greenhouse emissions. Oh, and they also want clean air, just don't bother them with the details of how to get it. Ignorant babies.
