During the gasoline price wars when gas was 39 cents a liter you couldn’t go on any public road without seeing a Sport Utility Vehicle or SUV.  Taking a glance at today’s dollar plus regular prices one almost sees more SUV’s than when gas was affordable.  After the release of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” sales of slightly more fuel efficient hybrid SUV’s rose but still the trend for large automobiles continued. {{fact}}  What causes our obsession for the largest car possible disregarding price and fuel consumption?  

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