I could give a rat's ass what people spend their money on. My problem is that these people are not making their own decisions. Advertising is all about influencing how people think and behave - in a word, psychologically manipulating their desires and their spending habits. Many dollars are spent by advertising companies figuring out how to convince you and I to desire and buy products we don't necessarily need, and that aren't necessarily good for us. Giant SUVs are right up there with cigarettes, as far as public health impacts go.

Where I do have a problem is that the impact of filling our public streets with these sorts of vehicles does not stop at the vehicle owner, it affects all of us. I am less safe riding my bicycle amongst these vehicles, we are all breathing more air pollution because of these vehicles, our soldiers are dying on foreign soil to provide oil and gas for these vehicles, and my tax dollars are paying for all the government subsidies these vehicles receive, including (1) the direct income tax deductions their owners receive, (2) funding for our military misadventures necessary to support the fuel consumption of these vehicles, and (3) building all the new unnecessary roads to accomodate all of these unnecessary vehicles.