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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (13423)	6/7/2007 10:14:52 AM
From: miraje	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

jitmab, old boy (or girl), you succeeded in making Cashboy's safety point. According to the testimony of that busybody battle-axe, Claybrook, (a stale leftover from the Jimmuh Carter, double nickle days), of those persons fatally injured in SUV-car collisions, the vast majority, eighty per cent, were car occupants (see NHTSA report, 'Relationships Between Vehicle Size and Fatality Risk')." Since the vast majority of crashes are between passenger vehicles, not commercial trucks, it's been obvious for years that bigger and heavier translates into safer for occupants. Once again, thank the dangerous and stupid CAFE requirements for this. And just wait and see the type of little tin can, crackerbox cars that will be mandated as a result of "global warming" regulations..

To: jttmab who wrote (13423)	6/7/2007 11:53:27 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

My wife has excellent visibility in her SUV, and in any tussle with a smaller car (suppose she is rear ended by a sedan) she will win. Meanwhile, the moron who rear ends our SUV will have a bumper through his skull. In an ideal world, passenger vehicles all match up and everybody is safe. And a lot more freight is moved by train. To be sure, the big haul semis are the biggest pain on the interstate, and it matters not whether you drive a Prius or an SUV if you tussel with one of them. Rock, paper, scissors: Prius, Explorer, Escalade. Get it? Actually, I am coming out with both guns blazing and probably being needlessly obnoxious. Frankly, I'd like to mothball our Explorer and buy my wife the Mini Cooper she wants--especially if they made a hybrid. But I worry about my girls when my wife is driving...