The Anti-SUV Movement

Many people are joining the fight against Sport Utility Vehicles and the dangers they contribute. Please browse through the quotes below, sources linked, and see what others are doing to take on SUV manufacturers. Entire cities and states are starting to do their part for the Anti-SUV movement. Also learn more about the benefits of hybrid technology and alternative fuel sources.

"The Bush administration announced on Wednesday a modest rise in the average fuel economy standard for pick-up trucks and SUVs to 24.1 miles per gallon by 2011. The change is designed to save oil while not hurt struggling U.S. automakers."
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"If the new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) rules were in effect now, it would cover a quarter million SUVs — including the Hummer H2 — that had never been covered by fuel-economy rules."
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"Cities throughout California - the nation's largest car market - prohibit the heaviest SUVs on many of their residential roads. The problem is, they don't seem to know they've done it."
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"California legislators believe the answer is a fuel-efficient compact car that gets more than the average 13 - 16 miles a gallon an SUV gets... While California would be the first state to introduce such legislation, the Republican governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, has indicated he is also looking into a similar ban."
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"Assemblyman Ivan Lafayette's weighty question is the first shot of its kind nationally across the hood of the biggest SUVs. He said SUVs over 6,000 pounds routinely violate federal and state truck route laws pegged to vehicle weight and should be held to the same standards as their commercial cousins."
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"A proposition before the Paris City Council would ban SUVs from the streets of Paris. Paris's Deputy Mayor Denis Baupin commented on-air on Europe 1 radio, 'We have no interest in having SUVs in the city. They're dangerous to others and take up too much space.'"
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A British legislator, MP Norman Baker, environment spokesman for the center-left Liberal Democrats, "has proposed banning sport utility vehicles from congested city streets" He cited environmental concerns and said that he has seen first-hand the adverse effects of sport utility vehicles in Lewes, the town he represents in Sussex, south of London."
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"Pedestrian Council of Australia chairman Harold Scruby called on the federal government to scrap tariff reductions on 4WD vehicles, and to apply lower tariffs to safer vehicles."
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"Religious leaders are urging people not to buy the oversized, polluting SUVs on the market."
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"London mayor Ken Livingstone... called SUV drivers "idiots" with more money than sense"
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"If you buy a sport-utility vehicle, keep them parked...That was the advice offered by Claude Mandil, head of the International Energy Agency."
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"The crowd decrying the gas-guzzling ways of America's vehicle of choice has expanded beyond traditional environmental groups and liberal lawmakers on Capitol Hill. A longtime Detroit journalist, national church groups, Hollywood power brokers and a radical group called the Earth Liberation Front have climbed on board. In the latest volley, conservative commentator Arianna Huffington just launched the "Detroit Project," an ad campaign that equates SUV ownership with supporting terrorism."
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