Agree 100% Mark. My daughter lives in Ocean Beach and drives a Hyundai.
For her an SUV would be just plain stupid. For others they make sense.
Rick
----- Original Message -----
From "Mark Hineline" <hineline at ocotillofield.net>
To: "KGB" <kgb@frontiernet.net>
Cc: "Spridget List" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: SUVs
> Jiminny, Kate, when people dump on SUVs, they're not dumping on people who
> haul horse trailers and whatnot. They're (we're ... I'm) dumping on people
> who drive them under conditions where a Honda Civic would be good enough
> ... because they're "cool," which they aren't, "safe," which is 90% a
> function of the driver, not the vehicle, etc.
>
> Anyway, people on this list should, by definition, be sympathetic to the
> anti-SUV thing. "Sprite" and "Midget" are pretty much the polar opposites
> of "Yukon" and "Ram Tough."
>
> Mark
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