Originally Posted by
John
no sympathy here, with the glut of trucks/suvs on the roads driven by soccer moms, wanna be ballers, and other people who don't need such a vehicle, they are getting what was coming to them.
It's just the extraneous members of our society slowly learning the difference between "need" and "want." There's a bit of a learning curve, and all those poor shmucks had to piss on the electric fence before they learned.
Still, high fuel costs don't constitute a real crisis until families start looking at the golden retriever and have to decide between having a loyal companion or a warm meal.
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