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" 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."

And with twisted logic like that the extension is that because Commiefornia is a socialist state, that they will cause all of America to go communist because what they think and do is more important than what the other 90% of the nation believes.

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

We screwed the Serbs by re-electing Clinton. They were just a convenient distraction and victim while Bubba had to burn all the evidence of his corruption and convince all the girls to shut up.

" 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. "

With such profound statements you have made, I figured you to ride public transportation so you wouldn't kill the trees, or the caribou in Alaska, or pollute. But then again, I do sympathize with your plight. It is a royal pain to see over my SUV when people are riding a bicycle.

" 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."

By extension of that logic, you should be taxed into tommorrrow also for breathing the federal mandated protected air and consuming our other valuable national resources.

"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."

And that logic is errrrrrrrrr BZZZZZZZZZZT Wrongo. The insurance companies miss those vehicles. Why? Because the econodeathboxes you endorse are causing higher and more life lasting injuries from minor accidents. I should know as I'm an unhappy participant in that statistic. The problem the insurance industry has is not the cars, it's the 70% of drivers in most states that do not buy insurance. But then again, once we adopt your solutions, we can get this problem cured also. Anyone who disobeys the state can be taken out and shot or sent to the showers.

Now I can't play much longer. I have to go put $30 in gas into my 5.9L equipped SUV, buy some cigars and dead animal products to grill to go tailgate at the Monday night football game. If it will make you happy, after I get home, I'll hug a tree for you.