Then get a wagon, like the rest of the world. SUVs are about fashion and visible consumption, don't BS us, if you are buying a SUV, you are like the typical owner: ignorant, self-centered consumer with little regard for the world or even your community:

1. They have not much usable room due to the high floors
2. They are trucks, which means they are built to lower safety standards that passenger cars, parents who place kids in these unstoppable and flippable second-rate quality vehicles are irresponsible.
3. They are the highest profit vehicles made in US, for reason #2.
4. Despite the commercials, they have typical passenger car suspensions and are not warrantied for off-road.
5. They are the most common vehicles seen in ditches after snowstorms up here.
6. You are 2.5X more likely to get into an accident with an SUV, hence the high insurance.
7. For all reasons above, they are a hazard to all other drivers on the road.
8. They make parking impossible, for the owners, and the others around them.

I'm always surprised to a cyclist proud of owning an object that is about cheap fashion, consumption, pollution and everything cycling does not stand for. Gas prices will NOT affect SUV sales, these people would rather feed their kids dogfood than lose their perceived road status. At 2X gas prices in Canada, we have thousands of suburban rednecks who cannot afford these vehicles commuting hours to work (the 10% generation). We now have the poorest air in North America in southern Ontario.

You know what an SUV is good for? Driving kids to the Asthma doctor.

A psych student here wrote a great paper about her precise observations in the large university employee parking lot: the lower the education level and job status, the larger the vehicle driven.