Benetton talk reports this story about a group of Swedish activists who've decided to annoy SUV drivers into submission by letting their tyres down.
“If selective SUV-disarmament is done repeatedly and on a massive scale, it will develop from a slight annoyance in the eyes of the owners into a real obstacle for driving the things, thus putting an end to perhaps the most obnoxious aspect of bourgeois carbon addiction.”
It's interesting how people see the SUV as a symbol of everything that's wrong in the world. Personally, I can sympathise to a point. Maybe it's because driving such a large vehicle is such an in-your-face statement. I wonder if it catches on? Secretly, I kind of hope it does.
I thought we were supposed to keep tires inflated so that we get better gas mileage and burn less fossil fuel?
Posted by: Nathan Schock | September 22, 2007 at 02:48 PM