Done to keep female's sexuality in check so that they won't act like "whores they are". Welcome to Africa or Middle-East and have a nice stay
EU and japanese populations are also much more co-located than in the US. as a result, it is much easier to implement mass transit (that actually works). living in a city is not always possible in the US. most japanese, OTOH, live in or very near very large metropolitan areas. it is very easy to justify small cars in such places since they don't need them for much as we in the US do.
weather in the US varies wildly as well, ranging from desert, to beach to mountain terrain also with significant snowfall in areas not otherwise in the mountains. these terrain differences are separated by hundreds if not thousands of miles to boot.
in COS, it is insane to NOT have an SUV. it has snowed nearly non-stop that past 2 months. going anywhere other than denver or pueblo from here requires mountain travel, and depending upon your hobby of choice, significant off-road travel as well. i'd like to see any of you so-called environmentalists get up timber hill in a 40 mpg car.
you're naively comparing apples to oranges.
taks
That still doesn't justify usage of SUV's and similar monster cars in city/suburban and similar areas. Who the **** thought that civilian humvees was a great idea?
EU and japanese populations are also much more co-located than in the US. as a result, it is much easier to implement mass transit (that actually works). living in a city is not always possible in the US. most japanese, OTOH, live in or very near very large metropolitan areas. it is very easy to justify small cars in such places since they don't need them for much as we in the US do.
weather in the US varies wildly as well, ranging from desert, to beach to mountain terrain also with significant snowfall in areas not otherwise in the mountains. these terrain differences are separated by hundreds if not thousands of miles to boot.
in COS, it is insane to NOT have an SUV. it has snowed nearly non-stop that past 2 months. going anywhere other than denver or pueblo from here requires mountain travel, and depending upon your hobby of choice, significant off-road travel as well. i'd like to see any of you so-called environmentalists get up timber hill in a 40 mpg car.
you're naively comparing apples to oranges.
taks
Extremely true.
The SUV's are not really the issue, you can clearly make fuel efficient SUV's. The issue is that the oil companies do everything they can to resist progress. That's their business. They make huge money selling gas, and so they spend a chunk of it buying up technologies that threaten their business.
A 1988 CR-X could get 50 miles to the gallon.
But the fact is the oil companies have no real reason to support progress. They aren't going to put themselves out of business.
Exactly. I only used SUV as an example, same problem with efficiency seems to be with all of your cars when compared to european ones.
Your goverment is horribly enslaved by lobbyers of companies. Was it victuals, oil or anything. "Baww we don't like this you must change this" play with ompanies is much worse than catering down the damn conservative christians. Stupid mucks, they have far too much power compared to their numbers.
Looks like I'm on the roll