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SUV's unpatriotic??

Sandy House
Staff Writer

Last time I checked this was America and a free country.

Just where does Arianna Huffington get off on pointing a crooked finger at the drivers of sport utility vehicles and calling them unpatriotic?

What is the purpose of turning Americans against each other? Because that is all Mrs. Huffington has done with her SUV accusations.

Find something else more productive to do with your time than criticizing harmless, defenseless, SUV owners. I cannot believe this issue even exists.

I can understand the “drugs support terrorism” argument, because drugs are bad in general, but SUVs are NOT.

Some say that SUVs are unnecessary. So are boats and RVs, but I do not see anyone complaining about them.

Sport utility vehicles are great for the everyday soccer mom, the mountain climber, the backpacker or the baseball coach!

Are they dangerous? No, only the idiots that drive them too fast around 20 M.P.H. curves are causing potential danger.

It is not the fault of the SUV but the ignorance of the driver.

If the issue is buying fuel from foreign countries, then everyone that drives a car “supports terrorism.” The environmentalists cannot target just one gas-guzzler when there are so many.

There are families that own four cars, people who drive transfer trucks, fly airplanes and race racecars, and there are also people that drive an hour to work and back every day.

Do they not also use just as much gas, if not more, as an SUV? So no matter what you drive, you are still using gas.

What is the difference between someone who drives a small Honda Civic and fills up twice a week and an SUV owner that only fills up once a week?

I am all for saving gas, but it is no one’s business what any American chooses to drive.

And who is to say that just because one prefers a bigger vehicle that one should be viewed as unpatriotic in the eye of the public?

If this issue has some validity, then the American military, which uses hummers, tanks and huge battleships, would also have to be considered unpatriotic for using so much fuel.

This is extremely ridiculous, and I am ashamed to see this kind of stupidity spread across my television and the Internet.