[9phil9]

Yota,
You're not to take this personal now are ya?
Good, because it's not pointed at you personally.

Just what do you think they mean by SUV?
I coined the term "Suck Up Vehicle" way back in the 70's, when the term SUV was first bandied about by the industry.

Why?

Because:
They suck up gas.
They suck up gobs of money.
They suck up insurance.
They suck up the road.
They suck up lives. (Both their own drivers, and other victims, that get hit by them.)
And they suck up the view of the traffic out in front of them from the people driving normal sized cars who are stuck behind them.

And for the most part, are driven by suck ups who don't need them to begin with, but have to have one because all their friends have one.

Now it's perfectly alright to own anything you want to, that's your right.
It's also quite alright to be a suck up, if that's what you want to be.

But if you are wasting gobs of gasoline just because you can.
Or if you hit someone, and kill their children, just because you are driving a 6000lb truck, and they were driving a 3500lb car, then you are not OK.

The story is all different if you actually have a need for such a truck on a daily basis.
But almost every one of them is being driven with only one person in the truck.

Great....go ahead and screw the rest of us just because you can.
But really....don't expect much sympathy from the rest of the drivers of normal sized cars.
We all see you as a threat to our lives, and the lives of our families.

Just because you can be.
Ain't freedom great.
It allows you do as you damn please even if it hurts others around you.
And there are almost no consequences to suffer either.

I guess that's what's happened to our culture in the last couple of decades.

The battle cry is a simple one: Hooray for me, and screw you, get out of my way or I'll run your *** over.

Now don't go getting all upset with me.

I didn't market this idea, Detroit did.

And everybody else just jumped on the band wagon in order to make a foutune in over priced, over weight, trucks.

Why hell, I even applaud them for convincing so many suck ups that they really need a 6000lb gas guzzling behemoth just to go to the store for a few groceries.
That's the American way isn't it?

We do as we damn please, and if you don't like it, then you can go pound sand up your you know what.

Do you disagree?
Do I have it all wrong?
Are you one of the few who actually need one?
Then you are the exception to the rule.

Look, next time you are out and about, try to take note of all the SUV's you see, and tell me how many really look like they are being used, as anything other than a personal (As in just one person.) vehicle.

Not many I would bet.