A swing of opinion on Global Warming in America?

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Originally Posted by August

I guess the answer to that question is where is the office and what quality of road do you need to drive over to get there? To a lumberjack the back woods is the office and it's the end of long muddy dirt road. You want to tell him or any number of rural and/or tradespeople between that extreme and yours that they don't need their 4x4's? Not me!

I hear enough bitching from those folks every time I go up to Maine where everyone has a truck, most with ATV's or snowmobiles stuck in the back and they need them not always but often enough to be worth hauling it around. Many of them look at government initiatives to force people into these little hybrid pod cars as yet another example of city folks pushing their city ways to the detriment of rural people.

I think what MH means is that while plenty of people need large 4x4's the majority do not.

In Australia at least, nobody begrudges rural/regonal users of large fourbies but their is an increasing trend towards city dwellers using them becuase they are perseived as safe and due to their size and expense have become a status symbol. Many are now marketed as luxury vehicles.

If you never leave the bitumen do you really need a Fourby?