Re: Bronco Busting or now I put my foot in it

[Steve Meyer <quattroslm@yahoo.com>]

That could be the most ridiculous thing I have ever
read on this list. This is the United States of
America. We all have the right to drive the most
obnoxious, gas guzzling, road hogging, SUV we want. If
we start taking away rights, where do we end up. I
agree tht Europe is ahead of us in public and
commercial transportation. Education is the key. Just
because I don't agree with the way a so called
"housewife" is driving her Expedition, doesn't meant
hat she shouldn't be able to drive it. maybe I'm the
one at fault. Who says that my opinion is the right
one and that all other should understand and believe
in it. If he/she thinks it is O.K. to drive an
Expedtion to the store, then they should. They just
need to be educated as to the limitations of this
vehicle. 

Anyway...enough for now!

Steve
--- Alexander van Gerbig <Audi_80@email.msn.com>
wrote:
>     Larger vehicles, SUV's, F-350's, and so on
> should not be sold to anyone
> unless they have a specific permit by the state
> where they drive.  This
> special permit should be given out to people who
> have special needs
> requiring larger than the average vehicles.  Towing,
> off-road for a specific
> purpose other than fun, heavy loads, landscaping...
> are the only reasons
> that a person needs a bohemuth vehicle.  SUV's are
> not for taking 2 kids to
> McDonalds, they are for offroad, towing, heavy
> hauling, and they do not
> handle well enough for proper road travel and
> emergency driving situations.
>     SUV's take up too much space, they eat gas, they
> pollute, and they kill
> people in cars.  I can fit 5 people in my car, an
> 80, with my ski rack on I
> get 5 pairs of skis on top too.  I moved an entire
> room from my dorm to my
> home.  People that have ten children need SUV's, not
> people that have 2 kids
> and a dog.  I am sick and tired of being tailed by
> owners of Ford
> Expeditions who think they have a sporty, fast, safe
> automobile.  I slammed
> on the brakes while a Jeep Grand Cherokee was behind
> me and the lady nearly
> ate my car for lunch, and she wasn't even that
> close, and she was not on a
> cellular phone.
>     Now if people think that it is their right to
> drive an oversized,
> gas-guzzling, dangerous SUV they are sorely
> mistaken.  Cars belong on roads,
> SUV's belong offroad or hauling.  That is what they
> where desinged for, not
> highway travel with a kiddy in the back bench three
> rows away.  I am also a
> firm believer that as in Europe trains are the most
> effecticve transport for
> cargo, NOT 18 wheelers which by the way are 5 times
> as dangerous than SUV's.
> Although 18 wheeler drivers have to pass numerous
> tests to drive those
> trucks, now why shouldn't a person who drives an SUV
> 3 times the size of a
> car have to take lessons and pass tests?
>     The US is in big trouble when it comes to
> transportation.  Europe is way
> ahead of us, use of train systems for transport of
> people and cargo, small
> city cars with great fuel efficiency, beautifully
> maintained roadways for
> the most part, reasonable speed limits for the most
> part, and people seem to
> actually pay attention while driving.  We need to
> cut emissions, unclutter
> our roadways, and rethink this whole bigger is
> better attitude we all have.
> I am not pointing the finger at anyone on this list,
> but it's ridiculous to
> think SUV's should even be sold to the common
> housewife/househusband without
> a special needs permit.
> 
> Alexander van Gerbig
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