My biggest problem with the SUV craze is being stuck behind them and not being able to see the traffic ahead of them. I now simply pass them given any opportunity, without any guilt if I'm not actually making any progress by passing them.

However, my father drives an SUV because he needs it occasionaly, and I need one to borrow to haul my horse trailer. A Tahoe is really the absolue smallest vehicle capable of hauling a normal size horse trailer safely. (On Topic Comment: Diesel is far better for towing compared to gas, but I can only think of one diesel SUV on the market)

So people need them, some people don't, and many people can't afford to own two cars so one can sit in the driveway most of the time. Are there too many of them on the roads? Probably.

If we assume for a minute that there is a problem with too many of them, the natual solution is to let US gas prices get in line with the rest of the world. Gas is cheap because the users don't pay the environmental costs associated with releasing tons of polution into the atmosphere every year. If gas prices doubled, only people that needed large vehicles would buy them AND gas usage would decline so we wouldn't need to defend our oil which someone with a twisted sense of humor decided to burry in a desert halfway around the world from us.

Matthew