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Mike
Sorry that you may have misread my missive. I never
said or meant to imply that those who owned these vehicles were riff
raff. However for me when I am riding a motorcycle down a
Calyfornua freeway at 70 miles per hour, and one of these scows is on my tail
about 10 feet behind me, and passing me on both sides atr 90, all I can
think is, can this tailgating or speeding vehicle with the handling
characteristics of a stagecoach really stop as fast as I can if I should ever
need to slow quickly. It often appears that the larger the vehicle,
the more aggressive and invulnerable the driver seems and we all see
it everyday.
When I drive my B, I never fail to maintain at
least a car length behind any vehicle I am following for each 10 mph of
speed. Seems that most of our Caly drivers have not a clue about the laws
of physics and all to often it is someone driving one of these vehicles who
are reckless and intimidating, so yes I suppose I(and probably
millions of others) are somewhat jaded and afraid of them(and hate them), and
have a somewhat negative opinion. Oh yes, did I mention that I lost a
brother to a drunken driver who broadsided him. This driver was driving an
SUV. If it had been a mere car(that had real bumpers of the
height mandated by the FEDs for automobiles--which again SUV's get a pass on),
he probably would have walked away. As it was, this SUV just crawled right
up over the protective side impact bars in the passenger door(where my brother
was sitting) and right into the automobile. Yes, I know being drunk was
the crime, driving the SUV was not, but my brother died nevertheless and he
could/would still be alive if struck by a drunk in an automobile.
Ask yourself just how comfortable you are with your
family members out on the roads in their small Hondas, Chevy's, and Audi's
with all these huge vehicles. It scares me everyday to see my wife go off
to work with some 34 roundtrip miles of freeway to drive, and
she is driving her small car and I know what danger she is exposed
to.
Some would say that I am just being paranoid.
However another wag once said that: "Paranoia is merely an enlightened sense of
awareness".
Warning: Only click this link if you have a
sense of humor. I do not wish to hear from those who do not and have
clicked on it anyway.
When does the ground war begin?
Roger Schaaf
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:28
PM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] FW: [FWDLK] All this
late model and future discussion...
I must be one of the riff raff since I own both a full-size 4wd
pickup and an SUV.
Last time I looked this was still a free country , if
somebody wants to shovel money down a rat-hole by buying more car than they
need, its neither My business nor yours.
Mike
'96 Dodge BR2500,V-10,
13 mpg(18 thousand miles in eleven years, so who cares)
'86 Dodge
Ramcharger, 15 mpg on a really good day (basically zero trade in value, why
not keep it?)
'99 Kenworth T-800B/475hp Cat company car,6.5 mpg @ 80,000
lbs (the boss gets to write this one off)
At 09:21 AM 3/21/2007, Roger
Schaaf wrote:
On several new
"cars" that I have purchased over the years, I was forced to pay a gas
guzzler tax of a thousand dollars or more. Who are the miscreants in
our guberment that have given an exception to this tax to SUV's and pickup
trucks. This is beyond stupidity(but they are Politicos and know
not what they do). As a matter of fact the guberment would give you a
tax credit and also allow you to write off in deductions the total amount of
any vehicle of over 6000 pounds if used for "business purposes, yea
right!". This of course is why you see all these giant Hummers,
Navigators, Excursions(used by soccer mom's and commuters) and other such
riff raff vehicle on our highways spreading their death and destruction
wherever they go. Not to mention subsidizing those countries that
support Islamic.terrorists in their attacks on our country and crazies such
as Hugo Chavez.
So the next time you
are whining about the price of fuel, take a look at the SUV next to you who
did not pay a dime in penalty to support their gas guzzling ways, which of
course means more expensive fuel for your Ford car. We have met the
enemy and the enemy is us, said one wag(Pogo).
Roger Schaaf
300 B 17 MPG on a good day, but only less than
40 gallons per year.
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