Edwards takes: "Huge Political Gamble"?

[Flabbergasted]

The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/edwards-big-call-on-big-cars/2007/08/31/1188067366025.html
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Edwards' big call on big cars
Anne Davies, Washington
September 1, 2007

THIS week the US Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards took a huge political gamble: he told an audience of unionists in Florida that they needed to give up their sports utility vehicles in the interests of combating greenhouse gas emissions.

"I think Americans are actually willing to sacrifice," Mr Edwards said during a forum held by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. "One of the things they should be asked to do is drive more fuel-efficient vehicles."

Asked specifically whether he meant Americans should give up their sports utility vehicles, or SUVs, the forthright North Carolina senator replied: "Yes."

Mr Edwards had better hope he has read the American psyche correctly. The statistics suggest he is dead wrong.