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How the same manipulative methods used to sell Big Tobacco are now selling oversized motor vehicles.
And yes, I know that in Canada, there are remote northern and other rugged regions where some of these vehicles might be useful, but the vast majority are sold in urban and suburban areas.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ebd0080238e863d04911b51/t/5f1fe0...
How the same manipulative methods used to sell Big Tobacco are now selling oversized motor vehicles.
And yes, I know that in Canada, there are remote northern and other rugged regions where some of these vehicles might be useful, but the vast majority are sold in urban and suburban areas.
I have said for years the real evil is the advertising industry. Without it we would not be consuming the planet at the same rate. I have more than once driven around a truck on a hill in the winter with the driver spinning all four wheels of his four wheel drive, with me in just a regular car with good tires. If you need four wheel drive in an off road area you are probably breaking some environmental law relating to stream and creek beds.
Kropotkin, I said that mostly because I didn't want to come underfire as an out-of-touch urbanite. Yes, I am abolutely an urbanite, but I do have relatives in rural and remote areas, and even in Nunavut. But they get around on snowmobiles (or snowshoes for local travel), not SUVs. I loved your story, and it reminds me of an idiot self-entitled column by Margaret Wente justifying her purchase of an SUV (in Toronto!) because she had trouble negotiating a snowstorm. That was a classic in the genre.
At least all the FI events in America, from Montréal to Brazil, have been cancelled this year.
