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• Monday, January 5, 2009 11:43 AM

  @DoctorGrieves

  Hey, Doc, you misinterpreted me almost completely.

  I thought I made it clear that if you have an actual, legitimate reason to own a specialty vehicle, like the big truck you own, then I have no argument with that, and neither should anyone else, unless hauling a trailer full of motorcycles is a debatable act.

  No, I was talking about people who own giant SUVs and trucks that they use almost exclusively for *commuting.* You see that a lot. Those are the people who are scratching a neurotic itch.

  Hell, I know all about those. What bugs me is not calling a thing what it is, is all.

  For your purposes, a minivan isn't much help. For mine, for instance, a minivan is an excellent tool. What I can't understand is why anyone would buy an SUV when a minivan is better about 90% of the time. For the other 10% (you live in the wilderness, you drive unpaved mountain roads, you haul trailers filled with motorcycles), an SUV may be just the thing.

  The discussion of what's green, and what's not, is another matter entirely. I'm coming around to the carpe-that-diem way of life, because all the little green shit we do isn't going to matter a fart in a tornado when Ghawar starts running dry.

  —had_enough Read had_enough's other letters
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