Well, I geuss its time for someone like me to get on the SUV/truck soapbox. Read an article the other day that says many people will be buying those bigger gas guzzlers this year and that is what many auto manufacturers are betting on. Most said they were going for the bigger Ford F250 four door models for their all around use. Other manufacturers were mentioned. Now I say thats ok if you need it for real work. But it is not required to haul the kids to school in, sitting there in traffic for 30 minutes burning a lot of gasoline and emitting a multitude of unburned hydrocarbons into the air and causing global warming. Nor is it required to go the local grocery store, restaurant or to take the kids to soccer practice. More economical transportation is readily available for those chores. Bear in mind, I don't belong to the greenpeace organization, or any enviromentally active group. However, I do think we here in the US should be a little more concientious toward the environment, and what we are leaving to our children and grandchildren. After all, our parents and grandparents didn't leave us with a big mess to clean up.
I'm sure there are many out there who don't even think about the results of driving a big gas burner that emits hundreds of pounds of stuff into the atmosphere every year. And all this stuff goes into the upper layers of of our atmosphere causing, you guessed it, global warming. Of course, SUVs and big trucks don't do it all but with so many millions of them on the road, they contribute a remarkable amount to the problem.
I'm sure this will bring a lot of remarks. Lets just see.
