Reply #94: You're too much inside your own small world... [View All]

[Crankie Avalon]

...just because YOU "don't know anyone who eats everything they get from a restaurant," you seem to think that must be the case for society at large. Just because your mother does "transporting equipment and daily carpooling", you seem to think ALL SUVs are used this way.

There's a larger world outside your view. For example, about 1 in every 3 cars parked on the streets of Manhattan (MANHATTAN! Where a car is actually more trouble than it's worth and isn't even necessary most of the time) are SUVs. Why on earth would so many people who live in a hyper-urban lifestyle need something like an SUV? They don't need them. They just have them. That's only one example, but already it's much more than an anecdote about a parent.

The choice of car was about a larger point about how too many Americans seem to be bred for overconsumption of EVERYTHING, food included.