Don't think I want to either. :-)
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From: Philip Arnold
To: CF-Community
Sent: 6/10/04 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: Maybe DC will catch on....
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:30:14 -0400, Harkins, Patrick wrote:
>
> The big motivator
> for driving an SUV is a sense of power and for this the environment
gets
> screwed.
Actually, our motivator is usefulness
We have 2 large dogs (Greyhounds) and 1 small dog (Italian Greyhound),
plus we have 2 people staying with us at the moment as guests
On the weekend we went camping up to the lake in out 91 Explorer - 3
dogs and 4 people, plus all of the luggage
If we had a little car, then we would have needed 3 of them to get
everything up to the campsite
What is more fuel economic - 1 SUV fully loaded doing 18-20mpg or 3
cars fully loaded doing 30mpg? An hour's drive, I think the SUV
out-ranks the cars with ease
Since we only use the truck rarely as we buy in bulk, the shopping
trip usually loads the truck up to the limit - again, we'd need 2+
cars to make the trip, or go several times - so the fuel economy line
goes out of the window again
I agree that people in the city who have large SUVs for nothing apart
from ego just need a slap, but there are some of us who use a SUV
because for us it's more economic
BTW, have you ever had a greyhound with it's boney tail in the back
seat of a car and decide it's happy, so it wags it's tail across the
back of your head? It's not an experience I want to have again
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