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Article: Big Oil Is Giving SUVs a Bum Rap.(Brief Article)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 25, 2001
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SUVs are getting a bum rap.
Every time the price of gasoline goes up, someone blames it on the popularity of "gas-guzzling" sports utility vehicles.
I confess, I've done it, too, in this very column. But lately I've reconsidered the topic -- largely because I recently sold my faithful, 17-year-old Honda Accord and bought a Nissan Xterra SUV.
Perhaps I'm trying to assuage a guilty conscience, but I think I have a good, altruistic reason for buying a Ute, as SUVs are called for short. When I'm not editing this newspaper, I'm a wilderness search-and-rescue volunteer with the San Diego Sheriffs Department. My trustworthy Honda simply wasn't going to ...