Environmental & Energy
Jun. 19, 2008
RIP, SUV: Lawyers Should Lead by Example With Car Choices
Lawyers should get used to having less and setting better examples by ditching their irresponsible SUVs.
Timothy D. Reuben
Reuben MediationTim Reuben spent more than 40 years handling complex legal disputes in California's state and federal courts. As the founder and managing partner of Reuben Raucher & Blum in Los Angeles, he has worked on a wide range of matters through jury and bench trials, arbitration, mediation, judicial reference, and settlement conferences across multiple areas of civil law, including commercial, real estate, construction, employment, intellectual property, insurance, professional liability, and unfair competition.
I read with satisfaction in the news that Hummer production is being halted. We have apparently reached the end of the SUV era - unless those SUVs are hybrids getting over 30 miles per gallon. That is because what we always knew would happen - oil running out and pollution ruining our world - is actually occurring, just as expected.
What is pathetic is that the SUV craze ever happened. It was, of course, fueled by us baby boomers -aging hippies and flower children and their yo...
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