Why do over half of the Chevy surburbans on the road have B/C

[southern democrat]

or W stickers on them. Is the Chevy surburban the offical vehicle for the Bush/Cheney campaign?

[saracat]

1. Because they are gas guzzlers and good for the Bush economy?

[Kierkegaard]

2. I think the Suburban comes from the factory with the sticker already on it

Let me ask you a question, since we're roughly on the subject already. Generally speaking, what is it that DU'ers have against SUVs?

[billbuckhead]

5. Conspicuous consumption that kills our soldiers, terrorizes poor

third world citizens, jeopardizes the lives of other drivers on the road with their huge size and dangerous handling and then on top of it all, exacerbates global warming. If some one has the need for an 8 passenger 6000 lb vehicle, fine but very few people really have such a need.

[Kierkegaard]

8. But that's painting all SUV's as 'Hummers,' which they clearly

are not. But, that does answer my question.

I happen to own an SUV that gets nearly identical gas mileage to my wife's sedan (they are both based on the same mechanical platform) and is every bit as safe, if not moreso. It's terrific in bad weather and it provides some peace of mind for me knowing my wife will be safer under those conditions. Not to mention that it is very handy for people like myself who need to haul awkward objects around on a regular basis. You understand my puzzlement.

The important point of that condemnation also applies to sports cars, luxury boats, motor homes and a host of other petroleum consuming appliances.

[txindy]

6. The way they're sometimes driven like a weapon,

kind of like some people push baby strollers through a crowd -- not caring what they smack and knowing full well that people will get out of their way. They use them for intimidation. I see that almost every day with large SUVs. Not all, of course, but enough. Big pickups, too. Smaller cars and SUVs try those tactics much less frequently.

I have a small SUV that gets 25-30 mpg, so it isn't the gas-guzzling aspect of big SUVs that gets to me. It's the way they're driven. I know a lot of people with Suburbans and only one of them has a family that actually needs that kind of space. The rest have them for 'prestige' and the enjoyment of having one of the largest non-truck vehicles on the road. Or so they tell me. :shrug:

[southern democrat]

10. I don't really have a grudge against them, but those damn stickers are on

the surburbans more than any thing else. I don't see them on Blazers, Explorers, Expeditions or any thing else like the Surburbans.

[qnr]

11. For many years, Suburbans were considered the

original "Urban Assault Vehicle" - I think the mentality that buys into that, instead of the Chevrolet Blazer, for example, are the ones that are buying the Suburban (as an economy Hummer I'd suppose) and plastering their B/C stickers on them.

[blondeatlast]

13. Depends; there are good reasons for having them for some.

I have no problem with those who live in the country, especially where the weather can get nasty, those who NEED them for their work, even those who use them for camping/hunting, etc.

But my city, Phoenix, is FLOODED with PRISTINE, enormous, SUVs, driven by suburban moms with three kids who have NO practical use for them whatsoever.

There are like 5 PRISTINE SUVs and trucks for every 1 car on the road.

I just want to scream that this is a DESERT!

I grew up in the country; working vehicles don't get a weekly car wash.

[txindy]

3. Sure seems like it, doesn't it?

Here in Texas, those same Suburbans have the chrome fish symbol on them, too. They always seem to me to have the worst drivers, too. (Yes, I'm generalizing a bit. Not much, though.) I don't know if it's because they can't see other cars from their mirrors or if they simply don't bother to use those mirrors. It's kind of been a family joke for years that if we see a Suburban cut someone off, run a light, or use some other aggressive driving maneuver, that we'll say, "Check for the fish!" And, sure enough, when we see the rear of that Suburban, there's the fish. Not always, of course, but enough times to establish a strong trend.

[soupkitchen]

4. For the same reasons they run every red light they can.

They're morans.

[tompea]

7. Arrogance + Mental Dullness= Bush Supporter

Republican Energy Policy

The rhetoric of free markets + notions of a smaller less invasive government = the right to use more than your fair share + excessive profits for our friends in Detroit and the oil fields; at the expense of finite resources, and in the absence of government policy to increase mpg every year.

The last president with an energy policy was Jimmy Carter. If anyone cares I have a kind of overview piece on energy policy at:
http://itsjustcommonsense.blogspot.com/2004/09/lessons-from-grammar-school-law-of.html


tom pea

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. It's freeper brattiness

Remember when there was the attempted National Rolling Blackout a couple of years ago to protest price gouging by the power companies?

Freepers wrote in to the website promoting it to declare that they were going to turn on all the lights and electrical appliances in their house just to show those tree-hugging liberals.

The left is saying that we have to conserve resources, so the freeperish types are making a point of consuming as wastefully as they possibly can.

(I, too, have noticed a correlation between B/C stickers and monster SUVs.)

[jdots]

12. In Lost Angels they have Kerry Edwards Stickers

unless they have 38 inch tires and all the crap,the fords here have the most Bush stickers.All in All people don't have many stickers because they are paranoid or don't care.It is sad to see a clunker with Bush stickers because they should know..

[miss_kitty]

14. I saw an SUV with a Kerry Edwards sticker on it

I was following it on the West Seattle-erm, 'Freeway' doing 45 in a 35 in the right hand lane, passing traffic in the left, which was waiting on line to get in the Northbound lanes of the I5. Suddenly she stopped at a gap in the line, and CROWDED. Wish she'd had a B/C sticker. Talking on the phone, and only person in the vehicle, an Expedition. :(

[Asteroid]

15. I drive a Honda

I have to fill up at the gast station every 10-14 days, though my commute to my job is only 5 minutes. My neighbor has a Ford Explorer and he has to fill up abut every 3 or 4 days. Personally I think SUV are too sluggish and would much rather drive a sport coupe or sedan, just for the better drive feeling.

[politicat]

16. Ours has Vets for K/E and various liberal stickers on it.

We have it for 3 reasons: 1) we bought it when we were a phamily of 5 adults and a small child; as members of the phamily have left and gone on with their lives, no one else wanted to take it. So.... 2) it's paid for, it carries the recycling to the recycling center and the cordwood home from the forest fire clean-up site, it lets us get over the fire roads with our summer equipment when we go up to the cabin without making 3 trips; 3) it's cheap to insure and we don't drive it much.

It's worth $1000. I don't want another car payment. It's diesel and it runs on bio-diesel most of the time. Yes, it's huge. Yes, it's slow. But when we're going up to the cabin (we half-own it now with an elderly friend who has had it in her family for years and is the last of her family; we're buying it in labor for keeping it up for her) we don't need something fast, we need something that can handle fire-roads. My hyundai would laugh weakly at those roads and die.

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