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nytimes.com - 12/24/2008

Nearly the End of the Line for S.U.V.’s

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Even a bailout could not save three of the last remaining plants in the U.S. still making sport utility vehicles. >

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End of a Supersized Era
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Gas prices and fiscal concerns are causing the demise of the American-made sport utility vehicle, a welcome development in the eyes of many fellow drivers, but one that also spells the end for thousands of American jobs. The New York Times: Even a federal bailout could not save ...

And it's about damn time, too
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... But as someone who now drives to work on New Jersey highways, and has noticed since the storms of last weekend that NOT ONE FUCKING SUV DRIVER IN THE STATE has made even the slightest effort to clear the snow off the roof of his/her behemoth, thereby putting everyone who drives behind them at risk from the massive flying shards of ice that fly off their vehicle roofs at 70 miles per hour, I say about the end of the line for SUVs in Ohio and Wisconsin "Good riddance." Not to the workers, but to the vehicles which their management made them continue to crank out long after the ...