On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, max wrote:

In article .com,
wrote:

That sounds right to me. Who are you to decide what vehicle is right
for someone else? Once you start that process, then we should go take
a look at everything people own and do. Is that ski trip to Colorado
necessary? Or should one drive to a ski resort that's closer? How
about driving the family to the beach every weekend in the summer?
Maybe we should close places like Disneyland, since not only does it
use a lot of unnecessary energy,

And that's how politics in America works.

If someone suggests that SUV's are a bad idea and that we ought to use
less gasoline, the next thing you get is "why do you want to close
disneyland and throw me in jail for going to Steamboat??"

we call that kind of sloppy thinking "the slippery slope" train of
thought.
"First they restrict our freedom to waste, next thing ya know we'll all be
in a concentration camp!"

ridiculous.