Predictable defensiveness; be mad at yourself for being uniformed for well over a decade while oblivious to the increasing numbers of these monstosities populating the roads. The moms buying them "for protection" somehow survived previous decades of driving without them, but the car companies that made far greater profits on SUV brainwashed them into thinking an SUV was necessary "for the kids". These things-trucks basically made for bad road country driving, have flooded the roads for no real reason except fashion.
Not defensive at all. Who's buying them for protection? Try loading & unloading a carload of kids, dog etc., from a standard passenger vehicle.
SUVs (1) are superb at polluting the atmosphere AND consume gas at the highest possible rate-they were originally made for country driving!!!! (2) are massively heavy projectiles that if they hit your or me, are killing us not them inside, and (3) aren't as efficient at moving masses of people as minivans that unfortunately weren't as trendy. 
Ok, here is where I admit ignorance.

I refer to everything as an SUV, when in reality I mean mini-van.
Put the blame where it belongs, on the dummies of both sexes. In the meantime sad to say you're one of the misguided who was also clueless-until now.


...I'm not a Mom, and I don't own an SUV, ...or a minivan?
...and I'm doing something about ground level ozone. I'm also helping people to lower their fuel consumption, reduce the pollution coming from their vehicles, and to save money on foreign oil imports. I'm part of the solution, not the problem.

And politicians could've done a lot more on this a decade ago, to get this info out to the masses who don't know, and through legislation to force the sheep out there away from buying them. Now with rising gas prices all the short-sighted boneheads are stuck with these things, thereby reducing spending power and putting a drag on economic growth.

Yep, ...with this I agree. That's part of why I'm part of the solution.
I help people to
save money on gas, by reducing fuel consumption, without changing our lifestyles.
We will
travel further on the same tank of fuel, AND
reduce the pollution from our vehicles by 85% or more.
We save money on gas, and we reduce pollution, while our engines run better, last longer, and on top of that,
...we
have the potential to make alot of money in the process.
It costs people
more money to NOT use our
MPG-Caps, than it does to use them even after the cost of them.
We have people who're actually making their car payments just by what they're saving on gas.
IMAGINE THAT! 
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