Group Protests Against SUVs

Newsweek's Gersh Kuntzman participates in a protest against sports utility vehicles.

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May 25, 2001, 11:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"There's a very thin line between six people holding protest signs and a movement. I realized this the other day when I joined those six sign-wielding protestors outside a Philadelphia supermarket to take a stand against sport utility vehicles, the behemoths that clog our highways, pollute our air and squander our diminishing supplies of fuel...[A SUV] spews out 47 percent more pollution than the average car, [is] three times more likely to roll over in a crash, [is] twice as likely to kill the driver of another car in a collision and...its gas mileage is laughable when you consider that even the Model-T Ford got 20 miles per gallon."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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