Re: So what now do we do?

Although I work for General Motors, what I'm about to say is not
endorsed by GM. My theory is that the popularity of SUV's is due
directly to the efforts on the part of the auto companies to downsize
their passenger cars. Americans are used to big cars, so when the
manufacturers began to downsize their vehicles, people who wanted
"adult-sized cars" switched to trucks.

On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 12:39 PM, George Murphy wrote:

> Jay Willingham wrote:
>>
>> Telling people in a technology driven society to back off on using
>> that
>> technology is simply not going to work. Ask Gray Davis.
>
> There's a difference between telling people to stop driving cars and
> asking them
> to use cars more prudently & efficiently. It would not be in any
> serious sense a
> backing off of technology to get people to stop driving SUVs.
>
> Shalom,
> George

> Bill Hamilton Rochester, MI 248 652 4148
Received on Thu Dec 4 18:35:19 2003