posted on May, 24 2012 @ 11:47 AM
I couldn't agree more with this article!
These are the assholes who are burning up all of America's oil supplies with the purchasing of the least fuel efficient cars on the market: SUVs and
Hummers. BIG vehicles to Rule the Road--That's their mentality. SUVs (Stupid Urban Vanities) are monstrous, gas-guzzling jokes consuming one-third
more gas per mile and outputting one-third more CO2 into the atmosphere. They are among the least practical vehicles in urban (even suburban) use. But
Yuppies NEED THEM to feel Powerful and Tough on the road; to Dominate the road by sheer size. The less-honest drivers always bawk that they need the
extra cargo room and have big families to transport. Bullsh!t. Count the number of people you see in them on the road at any one time and it usually
comes down to one driver and maybe one passenger. In any case, transporting more people is what station wagons were built for. As advertisements
attest, SUVs are aimed at American assholes who want to Look Tough; ideally these are corporate, desk-bound fatsos who want to figuratively extend
their fat on wheels at the expense of other drivers. SUVs roll over and are Lethal to other cars, not to mention people, when they hit. In addition to
robbing other drivers of visibility, they handle poorly on the road and possess terrible stopping power due to their extra mass. So you could say,
they reason, that they want these Big vehicles so they feel safer on the road from other people driving SUVs; a if-you-can't-beat-'em-join-'em
mentality which their click started (the equivalent to the gun nut mentality: "Other people have guns so I have to have guns--more, bigger, and
vicious ones!"). And of course, to hell with other people on the road so long as I'm the top dog. SUVs are now very popular in the U.S. regardless
of the soaring oil prices. Back in the 70s, President Jimmy Carter became a very unpopular president because he urged Americans to conserve oil and
energy. Ronald Reagan became a very popular president (which Republicans idolize to this day) because he threw out Carter's rationing strategy and
told Americans to spend-spend-spend (and why should he care, so long as the country doesn't go to hell while He's still in the White House: a
Republican presidential trend best illustrated by George W. Bush--except he started a War for oil and then just passed the blame for the state of
America onto the Next president. The Republicans will shoot their fat mouths off until most people honestly believe the fault of the nation lies
entirely upon the current president, and the actions of the previous one are in the past and long forgiven. Republicans today embrace Reagan like a
god and still default to his unrealistic "Party Today!" theme when it comes to fuel conservation. And why should they not when the upper class is
more richer today than at any other time in American history? To hell with the environment, too, since Jesus is going to rescue the planet, and all we
need is prayer to do it. (See chapter: On Religion) So say the Republican intelligencia. Simple logic and reason do not apply to the ignorant masses,
especially when the top-earning ones have their brains fully up their asses. From what I've seen, SUV owners are vain, self-centered, self-absorbed;
and despite the size of their vehicles, never use them for off-road driving (as I believe their original designers intended). Instead, they drive them
to and from Starbucks which is under a mile away. Becuse SUVs give the drivers a higher profile, ordinary assholes who enter them are transformed into
Bigger assholes who think they own the roads, with the sheer size of their vehicle making them road warriors. Recall the dangers I've mentioned about
SUV handling and their damage inflicted upon crashing and pedestrians, and now factor in the asshole factor. Now add loud speakers, a DVD movie
playing while the driver is yapping away into his cell phone (or maybe "texting"), a GPS talking to him, and maybe a can of beer or other substance.
All this is going on while he's racing beyond the speed limit with a King Sh!t mentality dancing inside his so-called brain. It's Dangerous. Now
what is Really sad about the SUV infestation is that it's no longer a localized Yuppie obsession and extends to all classes. I guess it's that
"Everyone wants to look like a Yuppie" or the "I can burn money like a Big Man, too" attitude permeating the people these days doing it. Gasoline
now costs more than it ever has before in the Auto Age. So let's all run out and buy these big gas-guzzling SUVs and pretend fuel is as cheap as
(tap)water! Let's also pretend that the environment is not being damaged in any way. These observations alone conclusively prove to me that 21st
Century Americans have their brains firmly up their assholes. It rides right alongside the "need" to buy bottled water and the entire cell phone
craze.