Dum-Dems: SUV = Terror.....?!?!?!?!

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Ubergeek
This whole thing was started by Arianna Huffington (most recent column on the topic available over at Salon.com, http://www.salon.com/opinion/huffing...suv/index.html). While the ads engage in a bit of hyperbole to make a point (and which ads don't?) the central point is valid: due to SUVs this nation consumes a million more gallons of gas each day than it would if everyone who drove an SUV drove a fuel-efficient car. Please don't try to tell me that has no effect on our national security.

So what's the purported effect? Using a tiny percentage less petroleum products is going to make all the al Qutb and al Maududi inspired fundie fanatics of the world love us and our values?

"You's with us, or yore one o' them!"

"If you ________, you're supporting terrorism and being un-Amerkin"

"A red under every bed"

****ing national neurosis, is all it is. How about if you're a brainless neurotic with no sense of proportion (or no sense period) you're supporting terrorism by running amok like a whiny little twit?

[chequita guevara]

I've been under quite a few beds in my time.

[Cyclotron]

But have you been under all of them? Presumably simultaneously?

MtG, I think the ad does not mean that terrorists will love us for cutting fuel consumption. The idea is to keep them from making money off our prodigious gas consumption.

[MichaeltheGreat]

I was being sarcastic.

I'm fairly sick of everyone with some axe to grind using the "helping terrorists" line, or the "we're at war" line to push their agendas.

[Berzerker]

Gievn how much the Saudis and other gulf states have invested in US corporations, and in theory, how much they make when these companies are profitable, I bet most activities in the US "fund terror". Hell, the huge tax cut on dividends: how much will go to foregin (perhaps Saudi) investors!!?? Bush Tax Cut = TERROR!

Lol, on the other hand, higher taxes can mean more foreign aid, some of which goes to the ME. I would have liked to have seen a commercial showing Joe. Joe is a taxpayer. Joe is taxed by Congress. Congress sends some of Joe's money to Middle Eastern countries. Some of those Middle Eastern countries give money to terrorists. Taxes = terrorism!

Why go after SUV's when they could have gone after Congress and taxes? But it is very amusing to see people get mad about the ads when they don't have a problem with the drug ads that make the same link between drug users and terrorism.

[Boris Godunov]

That sounds like something one of them thar Taly-banners would say.

[Berzerker]

Those Taly-banners were getting our taxdollars before 9/11

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by rah
All you SUV whiners can K*** M* A**
My wife and BOTH own SUV's. It's makes us feel safer driving in the winter in Chicago. Neither of us has been in a winter accident since.
We also bought a smaller more expensive house close to where we work. So combined, we use less gas than our neighbor with his high MPG car that commutes all the way into the city. SO all you people that automatically condemn anyone that uses an SUV to be a gas guzzler, can K*** M* A**.

RAH
My opinions do NOT reflect those of the management

Thanks for confirming the stereotype of SUV drivers, rah... (selfish, indifferent to the concerns of other drivers).

[Shi Huangdi]

I think it is not like you're funding terror with gass usage. Our government freely permits trade with Saudi Arabia and the mid-east, and it'll be their call if trade with them is against our national interest...

[Ramo]

So this campaign was meant to be taken seriously?

[Guynemer]

Couple things here--

Hysterical title for this thread. Arianna Huffington may be many things, but a Democrat she is definitely NOT. She is an independant conservative reformer. Admittedly, a rare breed, so some confusion is expected.

Secondly, of course these ads are an exaggeration. They're an obvious takeoff of those hyperbolic Drugs = Terrorisms ads that started running last year. No one actually thinks that SUV owners support terrorism. What the ads are trying to do is to get the American consumers to ****ing THINK ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS for once. As a people, we are very into instant gratification, me-me-me now-now-now. Our government is the same way--as already pointed out, we were throwing money at our buddies the Taliban when they were burning poppy fields. After all, who could foresee that a brutal, murderous, barbaric regime whose every principle--save one--would use that foreign aid to foster terrorists? Shocking, isn't it?

Anyway, back to the point--the vast majority of people do NOT need SUVs, and that includes you, Rah. The climate I live in is no better or worse than yours, and the roads in Michigan are much worse than those in Illinois. I have always driven small cars, and have never gotten into a single accident. If the cars in your family were getting splattered every winter, I suspect it might have more to do with the driving ability of those involved than on the type of car you drove. If you live in Duluth or Fargo or Sault Sainte Marie or Rochester, that's one thing. But folks in Chicago and Detroit do not need SUVs because of climate conditions. Christ on a crutch, this nonsense gets my blood pressure up.

[Adam Smith]

Originally posted by Guynemer
Arianna Huffington ... is an independant conservative reformer.

Definitely NOT. She is clearly a Raelian.

[Guynemer]

She is a little firecracker, isn't she?

[Zkribbler]

Imran and rah have a point. Not all SUV's are gas guzzlers. On a rah's Passport, the EPA Mileage Estimates: (City/Highway) are: 17 mpg / 20 mpg. Sure, it doesn't match the milage of my Miata, but then again I can't carry a 8x4 piece of drywall.

Most of the people here are talking about those huge monsters that drink gas.

Like that guy I had to wait for as I was making a left turn the other day. The closer his SUV got to the intersection, the slower it went. And I continued to wait because I knew if I tried to zip in front of him, he'd suddenly speed up and broadside me. The light turned orange and he slowed a bit more, but didn't stop. The light turned red and he entered the intersection, cruising through, chatting blythly on his cell phone. The good news is that, if God answers prayers, he's dead by now.

[Ben Kenobi]

The only reason one can connect oil consumption with terror is the fact that oil is bought from the middle east.

The solution?

BUY CANADIAN!

Save the world and own your own SUV!