Rush Limbaugh foolishly insisted on telling his listeners to get the biggest SUV. This has been proved to have been deadly wrong for our country, and for the individuals who listened to Rush. Please don't take me wrong, I don't care for the "environmental Wackos" as Rush likes to calls them, however, our national energy security and efficiency is a whole different thing. Blow hard radio talk people like Rush don't have the experience to encourage people to buy big gas guzzlers even if the supply is going down, and the refinery capacity in this country is shirking. Rush is correct more than 90% of the time about most issues, but on his diatribe regarding the big & and bigger SUV, he did this country a disservice. He had this funny cowboy song about the little idiot guy buying a Yogo, and the big man buying a huge SUV, and he runs over the little man.
While Rush defends SUV's and those who buy them, I don't believe he has told his listeners to go buy the biggest SUV.
The irony is that the SUV caze was driven by the liberals and their attack on cars with, in their opinion, poor gas mileage.
If they would have left it alone people would be driving cars getting better mileage that the SUV's. In classic overreach they got laws passed requiring cars to get better mileage (smaller cars) but the people didn't want to buy smaller cars, so they bought much larger SUV's that were classified as trucks and were not required to meet their mileage requirements.
If there truly is an energy shortage, people will buy energy efficient cars on their own, without regard to pronouncements by either Rush or by politicians.
IMO, though, any energy crisis we may have has been artificially created.