gas mileage thou isnt the only reason people buy the vehicals they do. if i have two kids i would want a safe tank like a suburban. i mean yeah you can get something econimical but someone out there is gonna have a large SUV and if you get hammered by one ur gonna be in trouble.
And there are people that would love to crush all my polluting demon cars. Its my right to drive a suburban as it is my right to drive a prius… I would choose safety over gas mileage everyday. I don;t think they suggest people into driving econimical vehicals, they try to guilt them into and i think thats wrong.