Another bunch of nut-cases !!!
When i saw this title, I thought the article might describe some new and interesting recreational activities. Frankly I'm getting tired of the "what would Jesus drive" debate.
"only those truly struggling to survive have the right to drive an Suv",
and will give them away to the homeless and downtrodden..........
That's an easy one.
He wouldn't. He'd walk.
But when he did catch a ride, it'd likely be in one of these, 
given the size of his entourage.
This butthead shows disrespect to Jesus. Except we will laugh at him instead of calling for his head.
Under current federal laws, a passenger car must get 27.5 miles for the gallon, but an SUV needs to get only 20.7 miles a gallon.
Wrong! A manufacturer's sales of cars must average 27.5 MPG, or there is a penalty. A manufacturer can still produce cars that get significantly less than 27.5 MPG, as long as other sales balance this out, or can simply pay the penalty. NEXT!
Transportation is thought to account for about a third of the global-warming pollution America produces each year, and America, as everyone knows, is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
So, if 52% of the vehicle fleet produces 34% more CO2 than it "should", and the total emmissions account for about half of a third of the national total emmissions, completely eliminating SUV's would theoretically reduce the total US emissions of greenhouse gases by 2.9%. And US production is one-tenth of the world production, so we're getting all hyperventilating about 0.29%? NEXT!
The new CAFE standards required carmakers to raise the fuel efficiency of passenger cars to today's levels. Today's new cars, as a result, produce less than 1 percent of the emissions produced by cars in 1970.
A gallon of gas burned in 1970 produces the same amount of CO2 as a gallon of gas burned in 2002. In order to decrease the production of CO2 to 1% of 1970 levels, current cars would have to go 2000 miles on a gallon of gas. That just stoicheometry. NEXT!
Americans consume about a fourth of the oil used each year in the world, and about 25 percent of that comes from the Middle East...
So One quarter of one quarter or one third of a half or one third, using the same formulas as above, means that the excess ME fuel consumed by US SUVs as 0.5% of total ME production. The Bush proposal would cut that miniscule figure down to 0.3%. NEXT!
Speaking of religiously imposing morality on people...
Check out "The New Absolutes" by William D. Watkins
It's a Christian book but here's a quote from Chapter 3:
We Americans are absolutists, despite any rhetoric to the contrary. Over the years we have certainly changed what we believe and how we live, but we have not embraced relativism. Many of the clashes of values and lifestyles among us testify to our bekief that our moral convictions and practices should be accepted by others as legitimate, if not outright fully embraced by them as well. The American people may say they accept the notion that a truth claim or moral claim is relative, but they do not behave as if this is true. Their behavior exposes what they really accept -- that what they believe is true or right for them should be (and actually is) true or right for everyone else.
In effect the cardinal sins are not sins of exploitation (sexual, financial, or otherwise), but now it's smoking, driving the wrong car, or believing something not endorsed by the mainstream.
