First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Law Professors
If you don’t have an S.U.V., sell your cloak and buy one. If you have one already, drive it as often as you can afford to. They’re handy, and fun to drive, and even more fun to park in front of the houses of those busybodies who think you shouldn’t be allowed to own one.
August 4th, 2004 at 11:13 pm
I don’t see the problem here. The article you linked to seems to be pointing out that existing law – passed to ban trucks, not SUVs – in fact bans SUVs as well, and (implicitly) suggests that that law should be enforced.
I can understand wanting the law changed, but how can you object to an observation that the law is, in fact, there?
August 5th, 2004 at 1:22 am
XRLQ HAS AN SUV
and he’s out for blood. A check of any pre-school in SoCal will clue even the stupidest academic into the fact that “SUV” is simply Madison Ave. for “full…
August 5th, 2004 at 7:09 am
I don’t object to anyone pointing out that the laws exist. I do object to the glee with with which both of them advocate that the law be enforced to the hilt, rather than fixed. “Cool. I say impound ‘em all!” is hardly what I’d call a neutral obsevation that a law is, in fact, there.
August 5th, 2004 at 9:13 am
Actually, it’s a similar law that causes the evil SUV tax break. Their size puts them above some arbitraty limit so people apparently get them absolutely free, or so say the moonbats.
August 5th, 2004 at 11:43 am
These people are such whiners. I drive a Honda accord because I’ve got a 150 mile commute, but these SUVs on I-80 don’t bother me in the slightest. The impulse that drives people to have license plates like “SUVFREE” is totally alien to me. Like I need to tell another person what to do with their time and money.
August 5th, 2004 at 3:07 pm
SUVs: Illegal in West Hollywood, too
Defamer mentioned it, as did LA Observed; XRLQ is fighting mad, while Professor Bainbridge is giddy over the prospect that SUVs are illegal in many California cities. So the question remains, whatcha gonna do abboudit? About a year ago, when…
August 5th, 2004 at 3:47 pm
I just think it’s stupid to ban vehicles by gross capacity rather than their actual working mass, and I think the Slate author is very sloppy for occasionally conflating gross capacity with actual curb weight. (Contra him, a Hummer does not weigh 10,000 pounds, though it does exceed 6000.)
Only the heaviest SUVs of each manufacturer (ie, in Ford’s case, the Excursion alone) is over 6000 pounds, which is also the case for most “un-objectionable” heavy durty pickup trucks (ala the F350, etc.).
The anti-SUV people should go back to simply admitting their opposition is aesthetic and puritanical.
August 5th, 2004 at 3:53 pm
There’s a tax break and we get it almost free? There will be some mighty fine discussion at the calblog house tonight.
August 5th, 2004 at 5:05 pm
Tax break, yes, if the vehicle is used primarily for business. “Almost free?” Nah. It’s almost free like the interest on your mortgage is almost free.
August 5th, 2004 at 7:07 pm
Well, i was being a bit facetious when i said for free.
August 6th, 2004 at 8:24 am
Atlanta traffic is bad enough without some a-hole in an SUV running me and my Chevy Cavalier off the road. The money I saved in gas went to pay for a .44 Magnum, which stays, loaded, in the glove compartment.
August 6th, 2004 at 9:52 am
Is “Turd” your real name? Seems appropriate.
August 6th, 2004 at 6:56 pm
SUVs
This post is for my (former?) friends at XRLQ and Libertarian Jackass:According to a University of Virginia study, suburbanites are more at risk of being killed by an SUV than someone living in the city is at risk of being