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Originally posted by Spud
"whew! no I'll get off my soap box." ... gee, thanks for that.
"It's stated in every driver's license test - Driving is a priviledge and not a right.
You don't have the right to drive a vehicle that is heavier than the road you're on was designed to accept."
- Are you serious? This is total blather, please explain to me how someone driving a Surburban ruins the highway anymore than a passenger car? A big rig I can see, weighing in at 80,000 lbs, but a Surburban? No. Don't buy it. And "driving" is the priviledge, not what I "drive", this is still America, and I do get to choose.
If there are tax breaks and different emmissions regulations for SUVs then address those with your congressman. Don't take my right to tow my race car from me because you percieve some imbalance between the way passenger cars and SUVs are treated and built. Why not call for the bumpers on passenger cars to be raised? Makes as much sense...
"Don't try to tell me that 95% of Suburbans, Hummers, Expiditions, etc aren't used as passenger vehicles."
- Sure they are, but then I also tow a race car and a boat with my SUV, so what concern is it of yours? How do you proppose I get my boat to the lake?
So banjomike what kind of millage does your 911 get? I know my MFI 2.2S gets about 18-20mpg (not very cleanly either!) My 2004 Suburban is getting 16.7mpg, and I'm willing to bet pollutes less than either of our 911s. So which cars should be off the road?
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It isn't blather, not at all. I did not say that a 6000 vehicle didn't belong on the highway - ever. I said that it didn't belong in a residential street that wasn't designed to handle that much weight as often as we ask it to with these SUVs.
And to respond - How do I expect YOU to tow your race car and your boat? Well - I expect YOU to use your suburban becauase clearly you need it. More often than not however people who have these SUVs don't have anything to two, don't have any roads that need taming and don't use it for anything more than going to and from work with just themselves or a couple others as passengers. While your cargo needs clearly justify the need - most others don't.
I don't intend to advocate that these vehicles should be banned but I think that if the user isn't using them for some commercial purpose that justifies their tax exemptions then they shouldn't be classified as commercial vehicles and they should be held to the same standards that passenger autos and small trucks are held.