Hochswender's Argument Against Suvs

Hochswender’s essay is quite compelling and persuasive to me. I noticed how Hochswender identified the aspects of the good and bad potentials of possessing a SUV. In the essay, Hochswender addressed critics’ claims that SUVs are directly related to terrorist group funding. He created pathos in appeal to drivers of SUVs in his arguments by making an emotional plea to safety and addresses critics about terrorist groups. Also in the essay he had some negatives and positives of driving SUVS. As a SUV driver, he gave a logical reason and example of SUV safety and dangers. “The well-publicized notion that SUVS are an actually unsafe, based on their tendency to roll over, does not take account personal responsibility.” He said “I would prefer that
my 9-year-old and I not be inside a corolla.”11 In another logical reason he addressed SUVs' and other light trucks' use of fuel. Hochswender stated that one must examine the safest means of transportation when "the roads are covered with insidious stretches of black ice".2 Did my car join Al Qaeda? Another logical reason in the essay, “were we somehow to cut our nation’s fuel consumptions by 20 percent, would that develop a reduction in the terrorism