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...what about the SUV drivers who never leave the dry pavement of the suburbs? I'll confess that they bother me too, sometimes, especially when they drive Hummers and other mutant monstrosities of the sport-utility class that have gone and ruined things for the rest of us. I understand that when people buy SUVs, they often delude themselves about how they will use them, imagining wind-whipped sand dunes and alpine lakes. But why in the world would someone need a Hummer? An armed incursion into downtown Tampa...
Maybe a government permit of the type that qualifies certain people to buy explosives and carry pistols under their coats should be required for the driver of an SUV. Do you travel on dirt? Do you haul a livestock trailer? It wouldn't remove the stigma, though. As long as some people are living larger than average, they will be targets for grumpy puritans and prohibitionists who, if they ever manage to get their way over SUVs, will refocus their wrath on "professional style" kitchen ranges or riding mowers above a certain horsepower...
...machines, though, are blameless. I love my SUV. In its name, I'll wear all three scarlet letters--proudly...
...Cadillac, in a novel set in the 1930s. Back then Caddies were what you drove to announce that you had power, which is why people desired them even as they loathed their owners. Today another automobile is inspiring such passions. As sport-utility-vehicle owner Amy Dickie says, "The SUV is the Cadillac of the new millennium." Dickie is 30, brokers insurance in Atlanta and owns a Lexus RX 300. Ads hint the thing could haul a yak carcass across Tibetan grasslands; though it's one of the smaller SUVs, it can tow up to 3,500 lbs. But Dickie...
...weeks, what started in the '90s as a quiet debate among car buffs and greens has become, as former Nissan design chief Jerry Hirshberg says with a sigh, "a religious war." On one side are devout environmentalists and icky Hollywood types, as well as reputable safety experts who say SUVs can be death machines. A lefty group called the Detroit Project has produced slick ads charging that because SUVs use so much gas, and because some of the crude oil for that gas comes from the Middle East, and because some oil-rich princes have funded Islamic extremists, SUV owners...