Buying a used car
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noneck, you can buy whatever you want to. As I said in one of my earlier posts, I dont know your personal situation of why you need one. If you tell me you do need one, then I can only believe you. I hate to feel like I'm policing someone or making them feel guilty. But 90% of people with SUVs do not need one. How do you think people survived in the 80's when there weren't any SUVs around? To Kona > do you not think that people had baby seats, and strollers, and groceries before the boom of the SUV in the 90's?
I must state that I not only dislike SUV's, but I dislike all cars in general. I'm targeting SUV's here since they are the worst option. The real issue is urban planning. This is the root problem. sprawl, suburbia, how irresponsible governments and planners have set up our lives so that everyone must get into a vehicle to go ANYWHERE. I understand that eliminating SUVs will not solve much, but an overall less dependency on cars and a decrease in amount of cars in our lives WILL - and it starts with a mentality of cleaner driving, and more importantly, smart urban planning that makes it possible for people to move about using other forms of transportation.
Do this, go into Google Maps and drop the little StreetView guy into any part of the city of Copenhagen. Look around. Their lives are not dominated by cars and abandoned parking lots. They are free to walk and bike about their neighborhoods. The scale of the city is CORRECT. It is HUMAN scaled - not VEHICLE scaled.