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SUVs Still Suck

I’m watching Oprah’s webcast with Eckhart Tolle, which is funded in part by commercials from Chevy. These commercials consist of a guy talking to a group of little kids, with a lot of happy whistling music in the background, showing the children how “environmental” they can be riding in a large oversized SUV hybrid.

I don’t care that the Chevy Tahoe hybrid gets 21 mpg, as much as a smaller car, so they say in the commercial. It’s still crappy gas mileage, and the car is still wayyyy too big. (more…)