Wow. That is one badly designed web page.
That is one badly designed web page. No kidding--it's a mess.
Because I am forced by economic retraints to drive a small vehicle, I pretty much hate anything that obstructs my view of the road. However, I totally support the rights of a citizen to drive any vehicle they choose. This lib propaganda about SUV's destroying the environment is total barf material!
Did any one read the John Bragg article?
The chief virtue of the automobile is the personal independence it gives the owner—a car can go anywhere roads go and some places they don’t, with a speed unimaginable in the pre-automobile era. Its secondary virtue is protection—from the elements and from collision. In both a car and an SUV, passengers are protected by the vehicle’s structure from the wind and rain. But in a collision, the SUV simply provides more protection than a smaller car does. Larger cars better protect the people in them—that’s why your father wanted you to get a huge, boxy old car when you were sixteen instead of a little Mustang—so that you would live through your first accident. Protection is a big advantage. So why then do the greens oppose safer cars? They oppose big cars for the same reason that they oppose big houses, new highways, new power plants, or basically any wealth-creating or wealth-enjoying endeavor. Wealth means that someone has changed their environment and improved it for human use. Most people want their environment arranged for their benefit—air-conditioned in summer, heated in winter, ventilated, bug-free and clean. In fact, it is man's ability to adapt his environment to his own desires that sets him apart from other animals and has allowed him to prosper.------------------------------------------
It’s appropriate then that the car is the greatest modern symbol of American freedom. If you don’t agree, ask any teenager counting the days until his license. He won’t need to ask for a ride to his job, to the mall, to school, to a friend’s, to anywhere. Even if he has to ask for Mom’s keys, he’s driving himself—a step towards independence. If he buys his own car, he has his first piece of meaningful property—it has a price, it has economic utility, it has a limited lifespan, there are operating costs, and it must be used with respect for others or there will be consequences.----
The automoblile the great showcase of freedom. The left don't think it that the people shoud be that free. Now rail travel, that's just the thing. Everybody moves in one package to one destination. With an SUV you don't even need roads. Thats too damn free!