"Sneaks" > wrote in message
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> And those of us who use pickup trucks for work outside of our jobs....or
tow
> race cars....or get loads of manure to fertilize our gardens...or pick up
a
> pile of VW parts...or etc.
> Don't punish everyone just because of soccer moms, please.
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............Your concerns are reasonable. My simplistic suggestion would need
a lot of examination of course and maybe get scrapped altogether. I have
towed a notchback sedan for 300 miles in the past with an Altima and loaded
it up with bags of gardening supplies on other occasions. Towing a large
boat or a race car is a problem for a small vehicle though.

......There are too many Americans riding around in 15 mpg vehicles with no
apparent need to do so. The strain on the environment and the dependency on
crackpot regimes in places like Venezuela is the result of this self
indulgent lifestyle. The parking lot where I work is full of Tahoes,
4Runners, F-150's, Silverados, Navigators, etc., etc. Almost none of them
are carpooling. Just driving around to work and home again in gigantic gas
guzzlers while bitching about $3/gallon gasoline. It's just too stupid. I'd
like to see a refinery built nearby here just to see some of them start
crusading against what they themselves are actually causing.