[lbo-talk] more on fuel economy

[ravi]

On 20 Jul, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>  SUVs are asshole mobiles and it is a
> shame to even be seen in one.  The only time I rode in one was when I
> visited my friend in New Jersey who owned some overpriced  
> monstrosity whose
> name escapes me with a myriad of gadgets inside.  She was basically  
> a good
> person, but always status-conscious & doing everything to keep up  
> with the
> Joneses, so she must have felt "obliged" to shell over 50 grand on  
> an SUV
> when everyone in New Jersey seemed to own one.
>
> Based on my casual and unscientific observations, SUV drivers are more
> likely to be assholes than drivers of other types of vehicles. <...>

Well, you may be right... I own a mini-SUV (Toyota RAV4), I do live  
in New Jersey, and I have been told multiple times that I am an  
asshole [sic], typically by pedestrians walking past me during anti- 
war marches, etc.

;-)

Ignoring the possibility that I am being defensive, I think you guys  
are trying to build a philosophy around a peeve. We have the same  
thing in the motorcycle world regarding you "cagers", especially the  
ones driving Volvos. I have similar theories about country music and  
its fans, guys with moustaches, people who eat American Chinese food,  
people who eat meat, people who think Casablanca is the greatest  
movie ever made, Beatles fans, countries where people drive on the  
right side of the road, people who say "I'm going to let you  
go" (when what they mean is that they want to go) or use phrases like  
"running errands", "the both of you", people who think Manhattan is  
New York, people who top post on Usenet or mailing lists (this I  
think may even be empirically provable ;-)), people who use Outlook,  
Mac users (of which I am one), and most importantly Platonists.

	--ravi