I blame auto companies not for making and selling the SUV but for their failure to educate the public about the difficulties and dangers of driving an armored tank on the open road. James Barrett is an environmental economist for the Economic Policy Institute . It isn't news to anyone. Everybody already knows that SUVs are horribly damaging to the environment, and Ford hasn't done anything to change that. If my memory serves correctly, Ford makes one of the highest-polluting vehicles on the market.
Talk is cheap.
Until they do something about it, I can't see how this announcement makes any real difference. The technology is available for car companies to make vehicles of the same size and characteristics that are more fuel-efficient and less polluting. But every time we ask them to do something about that, they say they don't know how. Currently, the problem is that American consumers are not required to pay the true cost of the gasoline. Nowhere else in the Western world are prices so low.