SUVs

Okay, so I'm still seeing a lot of SUVs out there on the ol' road. Didn't we learn a long time ago that driving an SUV is horrible for the environment? Didn't we all get the memo like four years ago saying the amount of carbon emissions they produce is just plain unacceptable? Then why? Is this a case of people, even now, being uninformed or, as I suspect, shamelessly self-centred?
I can't think of anyone - save perhaps a seven-man team of miners working out of Coyote Gulch - who would actually require a vehicle so massive. My family owns a cottage up in Nopiming Provincial Park, the way to which includes a hundred kilometres or so of gravel roads engineered by the same crew that did Splash Mountain, and even we don't own an SUV or truck. A Geo Metro has actually been proven to get the job done just fine. When my dad, who actually is a Coyote Gulch kind of guy, needs to bring slabs of wood or other building supplies along, we simply hook up a trailer to our station wagon.
And what exactly do you people still driving Hummers have to say for yourselves? What a statement of sin those things are. Personally I'd be embarrassed to be seen inside one.
The truth is, people who drive vehicles like that know full well that the rest of us would love nothing more than to see them get driven over my their own thirty-two inch tires. They get off on it. And until the owning of a vehicle the size of a small home gets out-lawed (I'd give it another two years), they'll continue to get off on it. I just really wish we were responsible and respectful enough to make the right decision ourselves.