Today's New York Times includes a tepid little editorial piece asking what shall we do with all the "suddenly redundant" SUVs?
Here's a few ideas:
Park them on the lawns of all the automobile executives who orchestrated resistance to fleet fuel efficiency mandates while simultaneously overseeing a steady decline in average efficiency since 1987.
Pile them high next to the Reagan Library - after all, it was the Gipper who undid Carter's commonsensical energy efficiency work and who ushered in the era of bogus rugged individualism.
Park them on top of Newt Gingrich, who is advocating "drill here, drill now" to make up for the crisis caused by his own obstructionism in the past, and who says American culture requires hulking SUVs as a "social expression".
Fill up the Heritage Foundation parking lot, as a monument to this 2001 work of genius that argues that higher fleet fuel efficiency standards kill people and lead to increased gas consumption.
Ironically, opponents to higher CAFE standards said over and over again that not only would they kill people, they would kill Detroit. Well, they got their way - but it looks like Detroit's death knell is sounding nonetheless.