Sometimes you just have to agree with politicians.

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FOUR-wheel drive vehicles (SUVs in the US) have become a "pox" on cities former prime minister Paul Keating said yesterday.

4WDs on farms, or in the bush, are fine with me. But city-based 4WDs whose only off-road experience is driving onto the front lawn to be washed should be BANNED.

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Here in Denver, roughly 25% of the vehicles on the road are SUVs. I would estimate that less than 1% of those are ever used for real off-road excursions. If the rest ever were taken offroad, it would probably cause the built-in DVD players to skip too much.

Yeah, I think they should be banned. They're big, they're obnoxious, and they are a waste of resources. And, they encourage dangerous driving, because the people who drive them think that 4WD means that they can go fast in snowy conditions, which simply isn't true. 4WD will help you start, but it does nothing to help you stop, which is the big issue.