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To: medved
Am I to understand that your decision of what is the right use of a SUV should determine whether or not I can own and use one? You have got to be kidding! Last I noticed, this is still a free country, and my decision on what vehicle to drive, commute in, or just cruise is NOT determined by your decisions, but mine. If I can afford it, and want to use it that is my decision, not yours. Please keep your decisions to yourself and your like friends, and don't try to force them on me.
10 posted on 08/12/2002 8:34:49 AM PDT by China Clipper
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To: China Clipper
Please keep your decisions to yourself and your like friends, and don't try to force them on me.

Basically, you read these stories about innocent Christians being bombed in Bosnia three days after the Saudis ink some huge contract for American military aircraft, i.e. you begin to get the idea of how some of this money sent off to the islamic world for oil comes back to this country, and the conclusion you start to draw is that SUVs kill Christians.

I mean, if the choice is between feeling sorry for you and your SUV or for those Bosnian Serbs, guess what?

That's aside from me no longer being able to ever see further than the stinking SUV or van one or two cars in front of me in traffic of course, or the fact that all SUV and van drivers appear to attend the same driving school, i.e. "tailgating isn't everything, it's the only thing", and their lights coming in straight on top of people in ordinary cars.

Again, somebody using one of these things the way they're intended to be used, for business, hunting/camping trips etc. etc. causes me no problems; the guy who drives around in traffic in one of them, which appears to be 90% of their owners, should be taxed into tommorrow.

One delightful possibility for a happy ending to the American love affair with the SUV: the same insurance companies which got rid of the "muscle cars" of the mid and late 60s might finally get the message on vans and SUVs and get rid of them for us.

53 posted on 08/12/2002 9:19:56 AM PDT by medved
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To: China Clipper
Am I to understand that your decision of what is the right use of a SUV should determine whether or not I can own and use one?

You've just summed up the essence of liberalism in one concise statement.

131 posted on 08/12/2002 4:43:03 PM PDT by Euro-American Scum
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