Despite the public perception that SUVs are safer than passenger cars for family driving, a new report shows the bigger vehicles are no better at preventing children's injuries in accidents.
The current CAFE standard for cars is 27.5 miles per gallon (mpg), and has not changed since 1986. The current CAFE standard for light trucks -- including SUVs -- is 20.7 mpg. This standard has been in place since 1996.
Single-vehicle rollovers (for all vehicles, not just SUVs) cause more fatalities than any other kind of motor-vehicle accident -- one-quarter of all deaths yearly.
Cars and light trucks, which include sport utility vehicles, pickups and most minivans, emit more than 300 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year in the United States. The transportation sector alone is responsible for about one-third of our nation's total production of carbon dioxide,...
the automobile is as dangerous as a drug. Humans experience a rush of power and lust flowing through them every time they drive, every time they are in control of a large technical machine like a car. The car thus takes on a different meaning, no longer just a means of travel, but a surrogate satisf...
Since SUVs are less fuel-efficient than other modern cars, environmental activists have launched campaigns against them. Friends of the Earth has a special anti-SUV website, Suv.org, which is quite typical of most environmental anti-SUV sites. They point out the vehicles' poor fuel efficiency, safet...
