"Frank Krygowski" <
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> Stephen Harding wrote:
> >
> > Frank Krygowski wrote:
> >
> > > "Mike S." wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Just don't ***** about the SUVs that you didn't buy just because you don't need one.
> > >
> > > Hmm. And just because you heat your home with natural gas, don't complain if your next door
> > > neighbor chooses to heat his by burning smelly chicken manure.
> > >
> > > Is that how this stuff works?
> >
> > No that's not really how it works, and you know it.
> >
> > Do you get upset if your neighbor owns a larger home than he really needs? That excess size cost
> > trees, pollution in production of the lumber, nails, roofing; higher fuel costs heating; higher
> > fuel/pollution costs in transporting; blah, blah, blah.
> >
> > Yet it doesn't concern you that your neighbor has 3000 sq ft for just he and wifey and junior
> > and fido?
> >
> > How much chicken **** are you willing to tolerate from that guy??!!
>
> None of my neighbor's homes have any likelihood of crashing into me as I drive. They don't have
> bumpers that aim at my driver's window. They don't have headlights that are so high they tend to
> blind me, nor driving lights or fog lights that are nearly at the same height. They don't take up
> two parking spaces due to their size, or because their owners can't maneuver them properly. They
> don't block my view in traffic. None of them have super-knobby tires that make excessive road
> noise. And the owners of those bigger houses don't display aggressive tendencies while moving them
> around, like tailgating. Finally, those houses have to meet exactly the same safety and pollution
> standards that my house does.
>
Ahh, so EVERY car driver doesn't tailgate, doesn't have those nifty blue high intensity
discharge lights (that blind even me in my full size P/U), that don't have idiots behind the
wheel weaving in and out of traffic with only inches to spare, or anything else that you just
ascribed to SUV drivers.
The way around someone blocking your view of the road ahead is to follow at a safe distance. Works
for me, you should try it. The only time I follow closer than safe is when I'm looking through the
back window of the vehicle in front of me, watching the taillights of the car in front of them. I
know that people driving little cars think that they stop faster than my truck, but I see so many
people driving up behind me and following so closely that I can't see their headlights in my rear
view mirror, that it makes me wonder how hard they're gonna clock me if something happens.
I've seen studies that show at highway speeds, having the AC on is more efficient than opening the
windows. If you're so darn environmentally conscious, why are you wasting fuel with your windows
open at highway speeds? If you've got the windows closed, you don't hear the tires nearly as much.
By the sheer dint of bigger size, it takes more energy to heat a bigger house, more materials to
build it, and yet, noone complains about bigger houses being environmentally less friendly.
Funny, that.
> IOW, the negatives of SUVs are much more than the fact that they waste gas.
...and those grapes are probably sour too...
Mike
