[HungLikeJesus]

I was in the middle of reading this article: "SUVs on road to nowhere" when this thread popped up. The comments at the end of the article put the earlier SUV debate in this thread into a different perspective.

The article opens:

Might as well hold services right here in the driveway of the Thielke family of Aurora, where their hulking, 10.5-mile-per-gallon Ford Excursion is on fire sale with few takers and is soon to be replaced by a less greedy minivan.

Killed by insanely high gas prices and a general cultural embarrassment, the SUV leaves lots of survivors but fewer and fewer friends.

"We're kind of in a pickle. We need a large car, but it's killing us," Erin Thielke, mother of eight, said of the family's $100-plus weekly gas bill. "It stinks. It's just like throwing money away."

Here are a few of the 232 comments posted so far:

Bigger isn't better or safer and most definitely not necessary. My sympathy for gas guzzling SUV owners is short lived. On multiple occasions I was almost run-over by an cell phone talking, SUV drivers who quite literally acted as if they owned the road and the rest of us just had to deal. SUV's owners fondness for buying, owning and using them a child like tantrum screaming "but I want that". There is a difference between want and need (what a concept!). That its taken sustained $3.00+ a gallon gas prices to get SUV owners to stop pitching a preverbial fit shows thier arrogance and immaturity. ...

So, Ms. Thielke did her part by contributing to the overpopulation of the planet, global warming, and soaring oil prices by having eight children and buying a 10.5 mpg land yacht. She must be so proud of herself.

Oh puhleeeeze, no more sob stories about the short-sighted fools who bought into the SUV craze. You will get no sympathy from me. These idiots made their own bed, and now they're whining because they have to lay it.

8 CHILDREN?
Hey, nothing against having kids, but come on...
That's not a family, that's a litter.
How many decades have we been talking about overpopulation, pollution, diminishing fossil fuels, and so on....
She's the poster child for our national, arrogant, gluttonous overconsumption.
Hard to have pity.
What was she thinking?

Eight kids sitting on a land yacht feeling entitled to "the good life" and a house-proud nit wit standing in front of it and living in the burbs beyond the horizon. If this isn't the perfect picture of what the rest of the world despises about us, then please tell me what is. And yes, I practice what I believe and live in my city within three blocks in three direction of just about everything I need to purchase. I drive a 13-year-old Suzuki, own an 800 square foot house, and I have spawned one child. How can some people sleep at night? Eight kids!!!

And my favorite:

car in many Indonesian people is just a dream, including me.