text: Articles such as this one remind us why it will require much more direct intervention to diminish the environmental footprint of private transport. SUVs are not cars, they are trucks and are really not needed for city driving. If our governments, federal and provincial, were really serious about meeting our targets as part of the agreements we have signed, very steep taxation should be put in place. I do not see a lot of articles about electric vehicles and hybrids in the G&M. Besides, SUV drivers progressively become more and more rude, which is something I see daily as a line up for the busiest bridge in Canada.
  For information, I drive a Honda Accord Hybrid fully equipped and I get between 1100 and 1300 kms on a tank of gas.