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Originally posted by Conclamo Ludus
It depends on what you see as selfish. Is it selfish to hate SUV drivers because they have a different preference of car they want to drive? Or is it selfish to drive a "safer" bigger vehicle, while not everybody can or wants to?
I think people should drive nearly anything they want.
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It's selfish to have you automotive preference materially decrease national security. That is the bottom line.
Now, each SUV owner has only a tiny part of this, but putting all together, they have a significant impact on our Middle East policy (oil interests are the next largest consideration after Israel), which is 80% of why we have problems in the Middle East (the other 20%, an estimate, is PR), which is 90% of why we have a deadly terrorist threat, which is 10% of the reason and 80% of the excuse for having a war with Iraq, and 100% of the reason that Governor Bush has any credibility at all, which is 100% of the reason we have deficits for as far as the eye can see.
So, to boil all that down:
SUVs are a significant part of a significant part of the largest part of our greatest national security threat, and, incidentally, the worst government this country has ever had bar none.