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Should we outlaw SUVs?
Fast Company ^ | October 23, 2019 | Adele Peters

Posted on 10/23/2019 5:06:31 AM PDT by BurgessKoch

They are an enormous cause of emissions, and deadly to pedestrians? Is it time for automakers to stop selling them or cities to stop allowing them on their streets?

Over the last decade, global SUV ownership has doubled. In that time, the vehicles contributed more to the increase in global CO2 emissions than airlines, trucks, or heavy industry, according to an analysis by the International Energy Agency. Even if we add nearly 150 million electric cars to the road by 2040, if SUV ownership grows at its current rate, they’ll offset that entire emissions reduction. And while they’re spewing emissions, they also have a more tangible cost: They’re more likely than smaller cars to kill pedestrians, contributing to a steep rise in pedestrian deaths.

Now some environmental nonprofits argue that automakers shouldn’t be making the vehicles at all, and some politicians are beginning to argue that they should be banned—if not from everywhere, then at least from city streets. In September, when a 3-year-old, his grandmother, and two men in their twenties were killed by an SUV in Berlin (coincidentally, on the same day that the German newspaper Handelsblatt ran a feature article about the growth in SUVs with the headline “SUV insanity“), hundreds of people protested the next day. The next weekend, thousands of people protested at the Frankfurt Auto Show to denounce the climate damage from the SUVs that automakers were promoting at the show ...

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat; chatforum; envirowhackos; liberalfascism; notnews; suv
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To: BurgessKoch

Many 5 and 6 passenger SUVs today use 2 liter turbocharged engines. Much more efficient than many, if not most, other engines on the road. They aren’t all big obscene V8 symbols of white supremacy. Women like them because they sit you up higher which provides superior visibility. Did “climate change activists” whine about mini vans? No. What’s the difference?


41 posted on 10/23/2019 5:50:31 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: a fool in paradise
Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

— Communist goal #12

Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

— Communist goal #15
If communism itself were outlawed, how many of the GOP would be behind bars, since we know the entire Democratic Party would be there?
42 posted on 10/23/2019 5:52:26 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: The Toll

43 posted on 10/23/2019 5:52:52 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: WWG1WWA

Absolutely agree.


44 posted on 10/23/2019 5:54:02 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

In the 21st century, California Democrats repealed laws that prohibited Communists from teaching in California public schools and colleges. Also in that legislation was a lifting on teachers promoting sedition against the United States.

And we see how Caliphony is going full tilt Jonestown.


45 posted on 10/23/2019 5:54:52 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Recall that unqualified Hillary Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart when Bill Clinton was governor)
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To: ThunderSleeps
You don't "need" an SUV... You don't "need" an incandescent light bulb.
You don't "need" a large soda.
You don't "need" a toilet that flushes with a couple gallons of water.
You don't "need" a plastic straw.
You don't "need" a standard capacity magazine.
You don't "need" an AR/AK.
You don't "need" a choice in healthcare.
You don't "need" a border.
You don't "need" a duly elected President.


46 posted on 10/23/2019 5:55:01 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: BurgessKoch
Bring these back:


47 posted on 10/23/2019 6:00:19 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: EEGator

That’ll do!


48 posted on 10/23/2019 6:00:40 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: BurgessKoch
Democrats at work...


49 posted on 10/23/2019 6:02:27 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: BurgessKoch
Over the last decade, global SUV ownership has doubled. In that time, the vehicles contributed more to the increase in global CO2 emissions than airlines, trucks, or heavy industry, according to an analysis by the International Energy Agency.

So what?

Global Warming is a fraud.

CO2 is not a pollutant and is necessary for life as we know it on this planet. Water vapor is the dominant greenhouse gas on this planet followed by methane. CO2 at 0.03% of the atmosphere plays an insignificant part of any warming of the atmosphere.

50 posted on 10/23/2019 6:04:02 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: EEGator

Toyota Tacoma

“Official Vehicle of the Taliban”


51 posted on 10/23/2019 6:06:20 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: BurgessKoch

If these fascist nutters really cared about the environment, they would demand that “we” stop elevating millions of third-world denizens to first-world lifestyles.


52 posted on 10/23/2019 6:08:37 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the disco)
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To: BurgessKoch

Here’s what will happen; as with the previous Assault Weapon Ban, aka, The Ugly Gun Bill, work-arounds will be made to meet the letter of the law. Trucks and SUV‘s will still be necessary to do work, construction, farm, ranch, etc. So, 3/4 ton and heavier duty trucks and SUV’s will still be allowed. Thereby, out in Red State country good ole boys and girls will buy 3/4 ton versions. Screw the Greens Enviro Nazis....


53 posted on 10/23/2019 6:09:15 AM PDT by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: BurgessKoch
Fast Company is a totally communist rag, anti-American to the extreme.
54 posted on 10/23/2019 6:12:54 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent..)
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To: WWG1WWA

We need to outlaw assholes who want to control our lives. These are the same people who can’t even run their own lives. Adele sounds like a moronic busybody.


55 posted on 10/23/2019 6:13:25 AM PDT by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: BurgessKoch

People buy SUVs to have room for passengers and cargo, something the little tin cans don’t offer. A pedestrian hit by a bicycle or a Mack truck is likely to die so watch out for each other. As far as electric cars go, I can just see me driving one when it is 30 miles one way to our little town and 60 miles to a shopping center. Try that in winter with snow and ice on the roads and the (electric) car heater running full blast.


56 posted on 10/23/2019 6:13:51 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: BurgessKoch

Because no one has ever been killed by a car??

I can understand a large SUV being pointless or problematic in old European cities with narrow streets, but the reality is most “SUV”’s are really just station wagons with higher roof lines and larger wheels.


57 posted on 10/23/2019 6:15:18 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: BurgessKoch

Author is a fag.


58 posted on 10/23/2019 6:15:48 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.>>>)
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To: BurgessKoch

Should we outlaw Adele Peters with prejudice?


59 posted on 10/23/2019 6:16:47 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

And ISIS.


60 posted on 10/23/2019 6:18:02 AM PDT by EEGator
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