Many people including myself have regarded Sport Utility Vehicles or SUV's as dangerous, polluting, gas-guzzlers that should not be allowed on the road. I feel that these reasons are enough to require higher governmental guidelines for SUV manufactures to follow. Regardless, consumers are still purchasing numerous SUV's, and in time global warming and other dangerous gases will accumulate causing a risk to everyone on the planet. Currently, one out of every six passenger vehicles purchased in the U.S. is an SUV. Along with minivans and pickup trucks, SUV's account for more than half of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. annually. This rise is due in part by the consumer wanting more cargo and passenger space, while also having the choice of a powerful V8 engine. However, in recent months manufactures have seen a slight decrease in SUV sales, which means that sales are leveling off. .
One of the main reasons consumers purchase SUV's are that they like the vehicle's massive size and high profile because it gives them better visibility over traffic and a feeling of better safety if ever involved in a wreck. In contrast to what many experts have said that SUV's are more prone to rollovers. The Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued its first ever ratings for the rollover risk of vehicles, from least likely to most likely to roll over. Not surprisingly SUV's were at the bottom of the list. However, the rollover rating system has since come under attack by safety officials, who say it does not go far enough in protecting consumers. Nevertheless, many consumers feel that SUV's are much safer than regular cars. They feel that critics have .
embellished the SUV's tendency to roll over. A recent study claims to have found that 1,000 lives are saved every year due in part because of SUV's massive size protecting the occupants in the car. I however feel that the size of the SUV's cause more of a risk to smaller passenger size cars resulting in higher fatality rates.
With the child came the biggest SUV possible. ... They had a choice of buying a bus or an SUV, and chose the SUV. ... SUV "s are very useful, but are they useful to everyone? ... Suddenly SUV "s aren't big enough. ... This is a huge inclination for buying a SUV. ...
The Rising SUV's SUV is an acronym for sport-utility vehicle. ... The debate environmental agencies must now deal with is that Federal law permits SUV's to waste 33 percent more gasoline than passenger cars; this is problematic especially since SUV's are becoming the car of choice in America (Shaver, A4). With the greatly rising sales of SUV's, Americans seem blinded to the fact that SUV's cause greater amounts of pollution, and are unsafe in a number of ways. Television advertisements present SUV's as a way to return to nature, yet SUV's actually acc...
Electric Cars Introduction/Issue of Debate- Gasoline Cars are the current method that most people use to travel, but there are a few problems - The fossil fuels necessary to power gas cars will be gone in 80-100 years - Pollution o 40% more than previously thought a few years ago o Major cities covered in smog (LA especially) o LA violated current standard 49 days in 2002 o 2010 Federal Smog Standards- reduce emissions by 530 tons per day o California- Zero emissions policy originally set for 2007, now pushed back o Children most susceptible to this type of pollution Also cut...
U.S. regulators have linked the failure of Firestone tires and resulting rollover accidents from 1998 to 2000 (mostly involving the popular Ford Explorer SUV) to 271 deaths and more than 800 injuries in the United States. ... Ford has paid to replace nearly 11 million Firestone tires that had been equipped on Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury SUVs and pickups. ...
They are also debating on putting the children's body mass index on their report cards so their parents will be aware of their children's weight problem and seek help. ... The group caused one million dollars worth of damage and destroyed several vehicles; most of them were Hummer H2s and Chevrolet SUVs in the name of their cause. ...
It's an enterprise that nods gratefully to his childhood by recreating a sandlot atmosphere in which kids don't need the intercession of an SUV-driving, PDA-wielding baby boomer parent to amuse themselves. ... Nonetheless, says former NBA forward Bob Bigelow, author of Just Let the Kids Play and perhaps the most pointed provocateur in the lively debates over youth sports, "Many adults have the misguided belief that looking at a kid at this stage gives an indication of what he'll be like down the road: 'My gosh, wait till we see him at 14, 18, 22!' ...
