max wrote:
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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??"
Because that's the end result of one group of people deciding what's moral for
everybody and it's our civic duty to point that out whenever the opportunity
arises.
I drive 3K miles/year and ride my bike 3K miles/year. We don't heat or cool
our house, which we've owned for 38 years. We buy used whenever possible.
I'm as virtuous as all ****, and I say if somebody wants to drive a big-ass
truck that's his business.
This is the USA. We get more choices than most of the rest of the world
because that's the way we want it.
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Cheers,
Bev
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