> Yes, Phil, I would argue that I REALLY NEED such a truck to get to 
> work in the morning.  Why, just the other day, I was consumed by 
> road rage, and rammed my truck into a hapless passerby who 
> happened to pull out in front of me and cut me off.  So much for HIS 
> car!  I had nary a scratch. It is my god given right to have a vehicle
> that can plow anything off the road in front of it, be it rain, sleet, snow, 
>or schoolbus.  And if it only gets 3 gallons to the mile, so what? That 
> just shows how rich I am, proving I am important, and proving 
> Americans are the most important people anywhere. So what if 
> everybody thinks we SUV drivers are a**holes? When I am driving 
> over the top of some 50MPG tin lizzie, how much mileage do they 
> get then?  Huh?  Take THAT you tinny little beetley bugs!

You're making a joke, Lawrence, but you aren't too far off from the truth.

I saw a man in an SUV literally run a family in a sedan off the road the
other day.  Literally off the road, until the two right hand wheels were on
the turf past the shoulder.  Times like that, I'm glad I have the Highway
Patrol phone number in my cell phone.  ;-)

I think these large SUVs (and big pickup trucks, too) tend to have 
extend that feeling of invincibility that teenagers have.  And that sucks
for those of us driving smaller cars.

Mike H., who walks to work every day (to offset his tiny little Subaru
Forester which makes him feel guilty [@28 mpg]).
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