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SUV owners are driving us to a new world, one in which I certainly don't want to live.

Every single one of us must breathe air to live. SUV owners make you and I breathe air dirtier than if they didn't drive an SUV.

When the oil in the earth is gone, life as we know it will be gone. That's unless, before the oil is gone, alternate fuels to power personal vehicles become readily available and public transportation becomes a viable means for us to get back and forth from where we need to go, which I don't believe likely to happen.

There is a finite amount of oil in our earth. More than a few people in the petroleum industry believe that will be discovered has been discovered, that the oil used from now on will not be replaced by oil found in the future.

In most of our life times, we will almost certainly pay more than $10 a gallon for gas. I paid $7.30 a gallon in Germany last week for the least expensive gas I found. I won't be surprised if I pay $20 a gallon someday here in the U.S.

Where we live, the work we do, what we eat and how we spend our money will be different when gas costs $7.30 a gallon.

If the benefits of owning an SUV were on par with the need to breathe clean air and lead the lives you and I now lead, my only thoughts about SUV owners is that they take more than their share of the road and aggravate me greatly when they drive like they own it.

The benefits aren't.

Sports? Find an SUV owner who's ever driven one off-road or in any other sporty manner and you should buy a lottery ticket. It's your lucky day.

Utility? Few SUVs have storage space to carry more than most medium- and full-size sedans and station wagons that, for sure, use less fuel and are safer than any SUV. Parking an SUV certainly isn't as convenient as parking a sedan or wagon, unless you like driving around blocks, Braille parking, dinging other people's vehicles, and making people squirm to get into cars parked next to your SUV.

Value? Great for SUV manufacturers who profit obscenely when an SUV is sold, because producing an SUV costs little more than producing a sedan or station wagon that sells for thousands of dollars less. Questionable for owners who bought their SUV for the most common reasons, practicality and safety, though they do make drivers small, physically and psychologically, feel big. Lousy for the rest of us.

Nobody needs to drive an SUV. Nobody should.

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