Letters to the Editor
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So who drives SUV's?
I drive an older Camry station wagon. Everybody I know drives midsize sedans with a few teeny cars like the PT Cruiser or the Cooper Mini.
Most of the SUV's I see driven around are owned by well-off middle-class families with two breadwinners, usually driving alone (without their kids) and acting like they own the road. The only thing worse are the monster pickup trucks, driven by rednecks who imagine they're in a TV commercial. And 95 percent of the pickups have nothing being hauled in their rear cargo container; they've gotten big cargo-haulers that are hauling empty.
Why drive such big cars? Possibly the low-cost financing these people got when buying these cars. But that's about to end, along with affordable housing. I can't help but wonder if the dying economy will cause these monsters to be repo'ed, and once they are, the amazing discovery by the finance agency that no sane person wants to buy such gas hogs.
So why did Detroit make such cars and make them the main product sold in their ads?
There is so much human stupidity revolving around the manufacture, purchase and ownership of automobiles in America that it's impossible to figure who deserves to be thrown up against the wall and shot first.