Playboypenguin
Moderator
One thing I do think we need to keep sight of is that it does not matter if an SUV is safer or not. There is no need to validate driving a lower mileage vehicle.
I do believe that we should be developing better alternatives and not being so worried about mileage alone. Mainly to help curb pollution and not to make it cheaper to drive. Because even if we develope cars that get 120mpg instead of 30mpg the oil companies would raise the price of gas from $3 to $12 and we would still be spending the same amount but we would be burning less fossil fuel.
Now if we could create non-fossil fuel dependent vehicles we would be getting somewhere...but try getting that off the ground while the oil companies weild such monetary influence and political power.
I do believe that we should be developing better alternatives and not being so worried about mileage alone. Mainly to help curb pollution and not to make it cheaper to drive. Because even if we develope cars that get 120mpg instead of 30mpg the oil companies would raise the price of gas from $3 to $12 and we would still be spending the same amount but we would be burning less fossil fuel.
Now if we could create non-fossil fuel dependent vehicles we would be getting somewhere...but try getting that off the ground while the oil companies weild such monetary influence and political power.