[OT] Choices - Anti-SUV

[cwass99@rogers.com (cwass99@rogers.com)]

Maybe because I'm a Canuck...
     You do NOT have the right to do something that adversely effects the
common good.  Or, for you Jeffersonians in the crowd, the rights and needs of
the many outweigh the rights of the individual.

     'Nuff said, can we now move this to off list?  Please :)

Cheers,
Colin

On 14-Jul-2002 Larry wrote:
> Dave is right.
>  This country is founded on freedom.  That includes the freedom to purchase
> a vehicle that your neighbor/governor may not care for or think is
> "iresponsible".  Unfortunately, our government can limit our freedoms
> through the passage of laws that, while they may not be unconstitutional in
> and of themselves, have the effect of indirectly blocking our constitutional
> rights....all in the name of what is best for the human race, of course.
> (as if protecting our rights is BAD for us....)
> 
> Larry
> 
>> I'm not necessarily an SUV fan but I do believe in the basic right to own
>> what you want and to have a gas guzzling monster truck if that is your
>> forte'.  I think SUVs are just like any other fad that will die out down
> the
>> road but for now, that's what it is, a fad.  The reason I say that is that
>> most families (2.1 kids) are not buying the bigger vehicle to haul kids
>> around and rarely do they use their SUV to go off-road which is why you
> BUY
>> an SUV!!
>>
>> Firstly, I doubt a Chevy wagon with a 396 would get 25 mpg and I haven't
>> seen a wagon these days that will comfortable seat 6 (maybe the Volvo).
>> But, once you pry all the kids in and then jump in yourself, where do you
>> put "stuff"?  Having a large family myself (according to todays family
>> sizes), I would NOT look forward to strapping all the kids into a station
>> wagon to go on a cross city/state/country trip.  The reason why your dad
> had
>> one and anyone else with a sizeable family (we had one when I was a kid
> too)
>> is because they didn't have much else to choose from.  Now that every car
>> manufacturer is offering 34 different styles of vehicles, there's a lot
> more
>> to choose from.  So, the auto manufacturers give us all these different
>> options to choose from, and now this idiot Governer decides to make the
>> decision of what type of car you drive for you.
>>
>> As far as the size of your family is concerned, people have large families
>> for a lot of different reasons.  Could be religious, could be that they
> are
>> good parents and in that case who else would you want populating the
> planet,
>> good parents or bad?, or just because they enjoy kids.  Whatever the
> reason
>> (in my cousin's situation) who is this Governor to decide what you will
>> drive and how many kids you can have?  A bunch of crap that I know the big
> 4
>> won't be putting up with!!!
>>
>> Dave
> 
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Cheers,
Colin

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