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.

Comments

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

I agree, even if I don't drive. In Wisconsin, people with 4 wheel drives usually have chains in the winter. Many who do stay in when the weather gets nasty enough.At -60 wind chill with nasty winds,the great outdoors should stay that way (IMO:)). It reminds me of all the useless RV's breaking down on Rainbow Curve on Trail Ridge Road in the Rockies. People don't understand that engines take wear.Or aren't built to drive at certain angles.Especially up and down hill over rugged terrain. And that shock absorbers are there for a reason. Which is *not * to see what you can leap and still have them work. And I am sure that if Paul Hogan actually owned the vehicles he drives on those smarmy ads and had to maintain them it would be another whole ball of wax:D.