Got this from Douglas Campbell on the Green All Views Listserv. It’s great! A scathing, yet humorous, essay on the Sport Utility Vehicle market segment.
Mercedes’ new SUV couldn’t come at a worse time. Can consumption be more conspicuous?
This segment is about want, naked and unquenchable, I-got-mine-you-get-bent appetite. It’s well established that the vast majority of these vehicles never touch gravel, never carry more than a couple of people, and never tow anything heavier than the weight of their owner’s childhood traumas.
Most people who buy the GL won’t know a Class IV hitch from a Mark 48 torpedo. And I, for one, am not going to congratulate some Bel-Air singleton for his wise vehicle purchase when it is so patently purblind and morally retrograde.