I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels like this! I totally hear ya! LOL I swear that everyone and their brother drives an SUV around these parts. What's really funny is every parking garage around here (especially downtown San Jose) is all for "compact cars", it even says "compact car" in all the little spaces. There's just one catch. Hardly nobody drives a car...let alone a compact car around here! Most of the people out here have SUVs for the whole status thing, which does annoy me. If you have an SUV because of a hobby, or a job or whatever..that's fine. But I don't think that everyone here in the San Jose area NEEDS a gas guzzling SUV (specifically Mercedes and BMWs) LOL LOL
I paid $2.03/gallon for gas in my car this week!

I've got no problem with people who actually "need" as SUV because they make use of the "Utility Vehicle" part of SUV. It's all the suburbanites around here who just drive them as status symbols that bothers me.

And I have to admit that we're looking at a Chevy Tracker because we want somethiing with 4 wheel drive to tow behind the motorhome. That way when we get to the desert areas, or places like Big Bend National Park, we can see more of it because there are many places out there that can only be accessed by 4 wheel drive.

So it's not SUV's in general that bother me, it's the waste of all that fuel just for the sake of egos. And I agree, an SUV that gets better gas mileage would be great.