My SUV is fuelled by the lamentations of your women
At Angry Bear, some stats on the negative externalities of SUVs. From comments:
Michelle White addressed some of these issues, but looked mainly at the safety impacts in the Journal of Law and Economics in her article "The 'Arms Race' on American Roads: The Effect of Sport Utility Vehicles and Pickup Trucks on Traffic Safety."
From her abstract: "The results show that light trucks are extremely deadly. For each 1 million light trucks that replace cars, between 34 and 93 additional car occupants, pedestrians, bicyclists, or motorcyclists are killed per year, and the value of the lives lost is between $242 and $652 million per year. The safety gain that families obtain for themselves from driving large vehicles comes at a very high cost: for each fatal crash that occupants of large vehicles avoid, at least 4.3 additional fatal crashes involving others occur."
