Road outrage
How corporate greed and political corruption paved the way for the SUV explosion
by Arianna Huffington

America's automakers have finally sputtered into first gear.

Responding to the growing public outcry over its reckless gas-guzzling ways, the auto industry used the Detroit Auto Show this week to unveil a line-up of "coming soon to a showroom near you" hybrid vehicles -- including a number of hybrid SUVs.

The question -- though I'm willing to bet no one at the car show asked it -- is: What took them so long? After all, cars powered by a combination of gas and electricity have been around since 1905, when the Woods Motor Vehicle Co. offered a dual- powered model.
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Stations reject TV ads that connect SUVs to terrorism

Television stations in New York, Detroit and Los Angeles are refusing to air ads that link driving sport utility vehicles with supporting terrorism, producers of the ads said yesterday.

The two ads were produced for The Detroit Project, a media campaign organized by author and columnist Arianna Huffington and Hollywood movie producer Lawrence Bender, among others. Both ads were modeled on hard- hitting anti-drug public service announcements produced by the Bush administration that equate drug use with support for violence and terrorism.
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