KSR on SUVs

[sawyl]

Reading my way through a backlog of newspaper articles — yes, I really am that much of a geeky packrat — I came across the following in an interview with Kim Stanley Robinson:

"I think the US is in a terrible state of denial," he says firmly. "Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong. Even here in California, 50% of cars on the freeway are SUVs, and they're political statements: they say, we're going to take the rest of the world down with us because we don't give a damn. Essentially they're Republican vehicles: when you see an SUV go by, you know the driver voted for Bush."

Testify, brother! Testify!