The environmentalists were outraged and their campaign to turn SUV owners into a collective Faustus was ratcheted up to a frenzy. The SUV became the left's litmus test for ethics. Once they had banished smokers to camps outside of buildings, they embraced them as poor ignorants so as to hijack tobacco companies for health care reimbursement and punitive damages. First you ban the product, then you collect on the backs of the slovenly addicts. These consumers of massive quantities of fossil fuels need their come-uppance.
Public chastisements drip with disdain.
Columnist Ellen Goodman is intimidated by SUVs in her righteous small car. She didn't specify her car model. Perhaps something cobbled together with macrame in the Ukraine by women who were beaten during the Super Bowl. Environmentalists have equated SUV ownership with a ticket to hell. Saddle me up with some bribes for Lucifer for I and my Suburban have sinned.