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.

• “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

• “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

• “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

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

  Matthew Yglesias » Misinterested

• “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

• “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

• “My experience with SUVs is that, at least for the really big ones, the people who own them are people with kids.”

  Basic Oil Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Lastly, it means that they ended up with a whole lot of unsold stock in SUVs and trucks that cost them a lot of money.”

  Waldo Jaquith - Ford throws up hands, admits defeat by Japan.

• “It's also the reason liberals can drive around in SUVs, while decrying policies driven by oil – dependency.”

  Politics and Literature

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