Duane Bozarth wrote in
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Doug Kanter wrote:

"Steve" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote:
The fact is that anything "geared like a truck" is inappropriate
for maybe 90% of the people who buy such vehicles. I'm not saying
that a carpenter, mason or landscaper shouldn't have a pickup
truck. But, it's just plain stupid that soccer mommies are driving
around in SUVs which, by design, get
hideous gas mileage.

There are different kinds of SUVs, many (most?) of which are built
on a car chassis. And many are smaller than sedans such as the
Accord or Camry. And some are 4 cylinder. And some are hybrids.
But other than that, they're all trucks that get lousy gas mileage.

OK, but look around as you drive. Are the majority of SUVs things
like RAV-4s, or mid & full size hogs? Here (upstate NY), I mostly see
hogs.

But, as you noted just a post earlier, you're obviously seeing fewer
as "the used car lots are full" of them. An observation which should
indicate that market forces do work...

Once upon a time there was a fad for custom-outfitted "conversion
vans" that were at least as gas-hungry and much less road-worthy.
They, too, had a short time when they were near the most popular, if
not the most, new vehicle class sold. Tastes changed, as they will
again.

It used to be that most of the cars sold in the US were "domestic" full
size cars with really crappy mileage;road whales,all of them.

Now market forces have pursuaded people to buy more "foreign" autos that
get far better mileage,and the "domestic" automakers have followed by
improving their products mileage.

But there's still a contingent of people who only "feel safe" in large
vehicles,and will only buy/drive those,and they generally have lousy
mileage.

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Jim Yanik
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