Peaches, for every one person that has a real reason to have an SUV, there is some poser out there driving to work each day alone... eating up fuel and all - the continued increase in demand for fossil fuels in the US (131 billions gallons last year, if numbers I have read are correct) - is something that continues to put the western world at the feet of these tin pot dictators...
Here... an idea from someone I respect greatly (who shoots guns even... )
http://www.automobilemag.com/columns/0303_...americandriver/
You won't like it.. but it is about a million times more productive than not drinking french wine.
Alex