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SUVs are simply wonderful vehicles, of that I have no doubt. They are big, loud, and obnoxious much like many of their owners. It's perhaps the owners who are the ones who should be taken off the road if for no other reason because they are ugly and I mean that in the best of ways.

When I was young, there were cartoons that I would watch and one had that loveable Goofy. Mild mannered Goofy is on his way to work in the morning. He hops into his old jalopy and on the highway becomes a maniac. Goofy is cursing, honking his horn, screaming, speeding and cutting off pieces. We see his blood pressure rise to strange heights. Once he parked his vehicle he became the mild mannered Goofy that we all love. I call this the Goofy syndrome, patent pending.

In my experience, people who drive SUVs, especially the men, will let the Goofy syndrome overtake their personalities big-time. The SUV is a huge, steel bodied, gas guzzling ego monster that protects its drivers and passengers from almost anything. They feel both invisible and powerful; it's a heady mix an almost God-like experience, and isn't a God-like experience something we are all after? Goofy is safe from all external influences and so is the SUV driver.

As I understand it, there is plenty of oil left in the ground. Lately the price of gas has been going through the roof and SUV drivers are going to be getting theirs; right in the wallet. They are going to get theirs for all the Goofy syndrome stuff they have perpetrated against the rest of us. They think just because they are big and huge they think they own the road, no wait, that's my whine against trucks, sorry.

While gas prices are ever increasing and they do have an effect on all of us but the drivers of smaller cars might have a good time watching the SUV drivers go bankrupt as they circle gas stations hoping the prices start to go down. You see, SUVs use a lot of gas, a helluva lot of gas and that is where the Corolla driver can laugh at his fellow vehicle drivers.

You can laugh all the way to the bank, as you follow the SUV driver to the gas station. Yes, you can gloat to your friends that your neighbor with the SUV is going to lose his house because of his need to continue buying gas. Not that any of them were used off road anyway they were just used for city driving. They are huge and one gets the impression their owners are trying to compensate for something.

No, there is no reason to force those gas guzzling vehicles off the road, they'll simply take care of themselves because of rising gas costs. It won't be long before we see SUVs abandoned on the side of the road. Left their like dead hulks If the vehicle in question is a Hummer the owner will be visiting his bank manager for loans to fill his gas tank every 3 hours.

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