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Howard
I find it really annoying when 'activists' target SUVs especially, as with that campaign promise in London's Mayoral election years ago. (I think it may have been 2012.) It's a classic case of bad, short-sighted campaigning, implicitly showing that non-SUV cars, which are far more numerous, are not such a problem, and completely messing up the message that the problem is automobilism itself, not your choice of car. Changing cars would require very minor changes and would still be extremely polluting and have all the other attendant problems, whereas addressing automobilism would require very major changes to everyone's general lifestyle, which is what is needed--but 'activists' like that then fail to address that by engaging in completely futile headline-grabbing stunts like that.