Originally Posted by cerewa
...The fact is, other people's wastefulness affects me and I can complain about it and make purchasing decisions based on it if I darn well please. People out there who drive single-occupant automobiles to and fro all the time are putting combustion by-products into air and some of that air, I breathe. People that use a 15mpg SUV where a 22mpg station wagon would suffice are misusing a resource that is for all of us, namely, clean air.
You do realize that a modern SUV is actually pretty clean burning? If you compare a 2006 Hummer to a 1990 Escort Wagon I bet you get similar pollutant output even though the hummer uses more gas.