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You hit the nail on the head -- there is no one size fits all. There is nothing wrong with an SUV per se -- IF IT IS USED FOR WHAT IT'S MEANT FOR, namely an off-road vehicle. Ditto for harvesters or tractors: both are gas guzzlers, but they need to be.

we need to change our consumption to more need basis -- if you're a construction man and use your truck daily to haul goods, great, that's the perfect use. If you're a city slicker and only go from point A to B in a city, you really ought to have the good sense to take something else.

if you DON'T have the good sense, then you invite government legislation which will punish the good and the bad. It's just like the Investment Banks -- no legislation, but it got abused. The better banks like Goldman didn't abuse leverage and they survive, but they got hit by the same legislation and became a regular bank like everyone else.