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that chart (3.75 / 4)

Excellent link. I particularly like that chart.
What I find especially annoying is that subset of SUV drivers who hears about how much more dangerous SUVs are for anybody in a smaller vehicle that they hit and says, "Not my problem". As long as they feel safer, it's doesn't matter whether they actually are safer and they really don't care if they make the world more dangerous for other people.
Hmmm. That seems kinda familiar. In what other context do we see that attitude?

"All progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw

by Bearpaw on Fri Mar 11, 2005 at 07:24:01 AM PDT

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- That attitude is certainly reflective of... (4.00 / 8)
  
  ...the smug arrogance that some people possess. National Geographic did an article last year about oil consumption ["The End of Cheap Oil?" April or May 2004]. In it was a photo of an Atlanta family and their SUV. The caption quoted the mother as saying, "I know it uses more gas, but I love knowing that anything I bump in to, I win."
  There are so many ways to deconstruct this argument to demonstrate this woman's arrogance, carelessness, and selfishness, that it barely warrants discussion here [insert 'preaching to the choir' comment]. But, let's have at it for the benefit of lurking conservatives...
  "I love knowing that anything I bump into, I win." -- Translation: I don't have to know how to drive defensively; my car will absorb the impact excusing me from having to be a safe driver. Further, I can be reckless as I care to be; my car makes me consequence free.
  "I love knowing that anything I bump in to, I win." -- Translation: I win and somebody else loses. To 'win' implies that somebody else loses. Thoughtlessly unspoken is that somebody else loses. Doesn't matter what they lose [limb, life, child, whatthefuckever], as long as I come out on top as a result of my own devil-may-care driving attitude that all this metal affords me to have.
  
  I lost my faith in nihilism
  
  by PanzerMensch on Fri Mar 11, 2005 at 08:48:50 AM PDT
  
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  - Drive a tank with this logic (none / 0)
    
    So to follow this all the way, these idiots will drive an M1 tank! But maybe they'll just buy the Stryker to stay on rubber tires, what selfish, uncaring idiots.
    
    by MD patriot on Fri Mar 11, 2005 at 10:45:11 AM PDT
    
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    - Hummer & co (none / 0)
      
      There already are civilian versions of military vehicules on our roads. I don't remember the name of the last one, but it's like 3 times the size of a Hummer and basically looks like an 18 wheeler's tractor.
      
      --
      
      Treehugger? Treehugger... Treehugger!
      
      by MikeCapone on Fri Mar 11, 2005 at 12:21:01 PM PDT
      
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      - Here it is... (none / 0)
        
        International XT - for those who have an even lower self-esteem.
        
        You don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is full of crap - Bill Maher
        
        by pdxcutter on Fri Mar 11, 2005 at 01:10:57 PM PDT
        
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        Try this one (none / 0)
        
        Russia's answer to Hummers
        
        European Tribune / The Oil Drum / EA2020
        
        by Jerome a Paris on Fri Mar 11, 2005 at 02:36:40 PM PDT
        
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