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" Somewhere around the early 90's the Japanese, particularly Honda, started making cars to live longer than the people owning them. Many of those get sold used with 150K miles on them and still run like new, and can be bought for as little as $2000 here and there. That's one possibility for a second car, there are others. If you use the stupid SUV properly, i.e. only when there's some real need for it, the thing will last you 20 years. Surely that can't be a BAD thing..."

Thank you Mao for assigning vehicles to the commune.

" Dependance on foreign oil compromises America's foreign policy and allows things like 9/11 to happen."

That has got to be the stupidest comment ever posted on FR, without question. We have a dependency on foreign oil by and large because tree huggers like yourself have limited expansion of our refining system and drilling in "enviromentally sensitve" areas even though there has never been a spill in one of these ares of any consequence due to drilling.

"100 years ago, the kinds of people who did that were riding around the desert on camels and living in tents, and did not have the financial wherewithal to attempt such feats."

Based on your theories of transportation, I'm sure you'd love to assign us camels and dictate that we live in tents too so we would all be more sennnnnnnnnnnsitive to the earth.

"If we were to do EVERYTHING within our power to eliminate the use of foreign oil, including developing every possible domestic energy resource AND get rid of bad habits like driving around in SUVs unnecessarily, it could be done."

Perhaps if we got rid of ignorant socialists like yourself by shipping you over to North Korea and getting the government OUT of the free market we would have capitalism and the market making decisions and improvements in technology. Then we could have our gas prices back at a much more reasonable level.

" Dependance on foreign oil compromises America's foreign policy and allows things like 9/11 to happen."

That has got to be the stupidest comment ever posted on FR, without question. We have a dependency on foreign oil by and large because tree huggers like yourself have limited expansion of our refining system and drilling in "enviromentally sensitve" areas even though there has never been a spill in one of these ares of any consequence due to drilling.

If it were within my power, I'd outlaw the democrat party in the blink of an eye and immediately set a national policy to develop every energy source which could be developed in America or any of its territories, but I would also put the heaviest possible tax on the improper use of SUVs and vans.

The last time we had gasoline rationing here in 74, I was picking up hitchhikers who could no longer get gas for their Mercedes, BMW, or Caddy. Next time, that ain't happening; you and your fellow SUV owners will be WALKING.