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Originally Posted by KLCarch
ok- now I'm going to get lynched for admitting this...
I have a suburban. in fact part of my reason for getting a HCH is guilt over that monsterous gas guzzler- BUT, I drive it with 8 girlscouts, piled to the roof with tents and coolers, OR 2-4 kids (varies with friends) again piled to the roof with camping gear, tents, coolers AND towing the SAILboat (no gas guzzling there), OR hauling crap from home cheapo or the lumberyard. we don't commute with it or drive it without a bunch of people. and NO WAY will a van (unless you're talking the 13 passenger airport type) carry the amount of gear my big red truck carries.
sometimes you just need a different tool to do the job properly.
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I totally agree, that's a perfect way to be using an SUV of that class, however there needs to be some way to penalize the use of these beasts as simple single occupant commuter vehicles and definitely must get rid of the $15,000 you can get back from taxes for buying them (as a business) because it's more costly (in more ways) than subsidizing hybrids.