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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: joseph krinsky who wrote (242287)	3/26/2002 1:48:36 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

SUVs became popular during the bubble era. Hmmmmmm who was President then? I live out west. I own an SUV. I won't give it up unless forced at gunpoint. It suits my lifestyle, and I use it in all of the ways it was built to be used. M edit I do not live in an "imaginary world." My world is very, very real.

To: joseph krinsky who wrote (242287)	3/26/2002 2:02:29 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to 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.

To: joseph krinsky who wrote (242287)	3/26/2002 4:01:09 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<< If Bush were to make a speech asking people to stop driving suv's, the anti bush people would yell about his trying to control our driving habits. >> I promise not to criticize Bush if he even suggests that maybe it's not necessary to buy a Lincoln Navigator that's mainly used to buy groceries, like I see so often. Not a scratch on 'em. I don't know of any Liberal that is saying that we should stop driving SUVs, do you? How about the sensible idea of buying a vehicle that fits the lifestyle, rather than the ego? Nah, let's train more soldiers and force them Arabs to keep the oil flowing. Del