SUVs

The popularity of high consumption vehicles, such as SUVs, is an indicator that people may complain about gas prices at the water cooler but they vote otherwise with their dollars when it comes to purchasing a car.

Waldo Jaquith - Wal-Mart’s environmental efforts are paying off. 2007

Teams of gunmen, riding in SUVs and pickup trucks and described by witnesses as “dressed like soldiers,” swept through Nuevo Casas Grandes and six neighboring communities between midnight and dawn, kidnapping and executing people.

The Fall of Mexico 2009

American conservatives have spent the last few decades trying to make America into the kind of country where a minority can shut itself up into homogeneous gated communities, defend itself with guns against intruders, and drive to work in SUVs that provide massive armor-plated protection against contact of any kind with the teeming polyglot of America outside.

Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie 2010

Getting rid of SUVs is not the answer, because MPG is but one variable.

Oil Import Tariff?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Re: but it would also discourage carpooling in SUVs, because it would discourage people from buying them in the first place

Matthew Yglesias » Misinterested 2009

Teams of gunmen, riding in SUVs and pickup trucks and described by witnesses as “dressed like soldiers,” swept through Nuevo Casas Grandes and six neighboring communities between midnight and dawn, kidnapping and executing people.

The Fall of Mexico 2009

It is really interesting because all the “commoners” arrive at an event and wait for awhile until all the important people arrive in SUVs in one gigantic dust swoosh.

Blog from Feb. 17th, 2009 Anna 2009

Teams of gunmen, riding in SUVs and pickup trucks and described by witnesses as “dressed like soldiers,” swept through Nuevo Casas Grandes and six neighboring communities between midnight and dawn, kidnapping and executing people.

The Fall of Mexico 2009

It is really interesting because all the “commoners” arrive at an event and wait for awhile until all the important people arrive in SUVs in one gigantic dust swoosh.

Archive 2009-03-01 Anna 2009

A gas tax you can split equitably; an SUV tax would discourage solo drives in SUVs, but it would also discourage carpooling in SUVs, because it would discourage people from buying them in the first place, as you note.

Matthew Yglesias » Misinterested 2009