Do you drive an SUV?

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Anonymous wrote:So, you SUV drivers know you are harming the environment and destroying your children's future. Yet you do it anyway. How do you reconcile that, exactly?

Easy. I don't accept the premise.

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People who drive more fuel efficient cars drive more, eliminating much of the benefit. This is true of all energy efficiency measures. The conservation rebound effect is real.

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Climate change is too political. I’m not saying that we don’t need to take it more seriously. But it has beenexagerated by people who benefit from it. Politicians, scientists etc.. they are playing with out basic fears. Don’t forget the press

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I don't have an SUV, but i also don't blame people who do. As long as public transport is where it is, and price signals are what they are, households are encouraged to buy cars and SUVs at that. If price of vehicles and gas included in it CO2 emissions, the prices and incentives would have been very different.

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Anonymous wrote:If you believe that the use of fossil fuels has caused/accelerated/contributed to climate change and drive an SUV, please help me understand how you reconcile your beliefs with your vehicle choice. I would genuinely like to know. I live in Bethesda and practically everybody I know drives an SUV. Yet I'm pretty sure that, if I asked, they would say they are very concerned about climate change and disappointed the US withdrew from the Kyoto protocol. Obviously I risk alienating friends and neighbors if I ask this directly as it could sound accusatory. Please only answer if you have an SUV and these beliefs.

Because I spend two hours in bad traffic every day, and I have a better chance surviving a collision in my SUV than in a little Prius.
People tend to focus on the immediate rather than the future.
This is the same reason that most prevention messages fall flat with the public. People are more focused on their daily life than on preventing a disease that may or may not happen in the future.

Plus for that commute you need something that can handle snow and rain well.

Rain?! Oh honey, it's not the car - it's you.

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Anonymous wrote:So, you SUV drivers know you are harming the environment and destroying your children's future. Yet you do it anyway. How do you reconcile that, exactly?

My SUV gets gas mileage that is comparable to many cars. So, by your logic, isn’t anyone who doesn’t drive the highest mpg car needlessly harming the environment and destroying their children’s future? Or how about anyone who chooses a combustion engine, regardless of mpg, over an electric vehicle?

Electric cars are still using electricity which has to be made/not great for the environment. I'd be curious what size homes all these environmentalists screaming about SUV's live in. A huge house is going to be equally an issue between materials and running it.

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17:51 European here. Perhaps you need to do a little more research, maybe plan another holiday to the Italian riviera or Provence.

Just returned from Gstaad. Land Rovers in and around the area as far as the eye could see. Traveled throughout rural Tuscany over the summer. More SUVs. In Florence, though, tiny cars. Ditto Rome, though I will say that in Rome, we saw some large SUVs at the nicer hotels.

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Unless you are living in a tent with no running water, heat or ac, you have no room to point fingers. So you don’t have an suv, big deal. You still have a car, still heat and cool a house, still use too much water, fly for vacations, eat irresponsibly farmed food, buy products made in factories that emit pollution into the air and water, etc. We do need to care of the earth, but being small minded and blaming others isn’t the solution. And no I don’t drive an suv and I live in Bethesda.

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We live in Bethesda too. I see plenty of non-SUVs when we go to (public) school and other parents are there. It seems like most SUV drivers are driving the SUVs built in car-based platforms, not the huge Suburbans and that type. The car-based platform SUVs get 20-30 mpg, so not that bad.

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I don’t care.

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No.

Unless you fly on an airplane like a sold out 777 more the 4500 miles airplanes are way worse.

In america cars burn 1billion gallons of gas a day; airplanes 740 million.

Start targeting all the celebrities who fly private air and rich people like that. They are like a firehose on a match for killing our planet.

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I have a Honda Pilot. I also have 1 kid, 2 large dogs and i am also emergency personnel at work so have to go in even if there is a blizzard snd everything is shut down. I also use metal straws, recycle, adopted my kid and the dogs and use as much that reusable as i can

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My commute (which is not daily bc of telework) is 7 miles, so while I do have a vehicle that does not get great mpg, my overall impact is far better than if I had a car with better mpg but a 20-30 mile daily commute.

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I drive a large SUV. I bought it brand new in 2004.
It has 60,000 miles on it,

That is 4000 miles a year. Pretty sure that is better for the environment than a small car driving 20k miles a year.

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19:03. Really?! You use a jet setting destination like Gstaad to gauge the driving habits of the hoi polloi? You do realise how ridiculous that sounds?