JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS! I want a more natural environment, increased investment in renewable energy sources, and an International pickup truck.

Enlightening to note that gross vehicle weight for the International CXT is 25,999 lbs, making it just light enough for you to drive it without a commercial driver's license. American automobile manufacturers have played games with gross vehicle weights for years and the result has been a glut of low-efficiency, top-heavy, and expensive SUVs. You can read more about the SUV "craze" in Keith Bradsher's 2002 book High and Mighty: SUVs - The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way. Check it out at your local library. While you're there, get some sense of the automobile industry's past transgressions in Ralph Nader's very readable 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile. Upon learning a bit more about the decisions that automobile companies make about the physical safety and health of their paying customers, doesn't it make sense to question their decision-making process when it comes to the safety and health of the environment? Why do we allow them to take out money, provide an unsafe product, and then to spill pollutants all over us? I think it's because we're too lazy to care.

Happy Holidays!