Defending SUVs

Tom Smith at The Right Coast offers up an energetic, and funny, defense of the SUV. My favorite line:

This is America. If we start to run out of air, we can make the French ride bicycles. They look cute that way.
But the core of his argument is that the attacks on them are class warfare by the snotty rich.
The real reason SUV haters hate SUV’s is they can’t stand the symbolism of it. 5000 pound Mercedes are fine. Have you ever heard anyone say, oh, those movie stars’ cars are so long. Nope, limousines are fine. But if it’s boxy or you can actually haul something in it, oh, dear, the masses are getting above themselves. Too many children. Why can’t they just have one or two like Nigel and I. And those big dogs! What’s wrong with a Bichon?
He has a good point, so I will be generous and will not in any way infer that his comments about dogs are meant to cast aspersions on small dogs. Asta, the official AtlanticBlog dog, weighs in at about 22 pounds, and does not take kindly to smears of small dogs, in particular suggestions that there might be anything Hollywood about them.