“Careful You May Run Out of Planet”

David Goewey’s essay gives readers an outlook on the effects SUV’s have on the planet. SUV’s emerged from the idea that the world needs to be explored, which goes back to the historical beginnings of America when the Europeans first sailed over here and encountered “the wilderness”. This fascination with the American frontier hundreds of years later created America’s obsession with SUV’s and as a result of millions of petroleum utilizing vehicles, our planet is suffering. The increase of carbon dioxide levels just happens to coincide with the increase in gasoline use. So much for exploring the world in SUV’s, if we aren’t careful, we might just run out of planet to travel. Ice caps are melting, causing sea levels to rise. If the sea levels keep rising, there won’t be any land to cruise in our beloved vehicles. There are also extreme weather fluctuations globally. Remember the tsunami and all of those hurricanes? What about the seemingly small local weather changes? Hasn’t it been abnormally warm in certain regions and abnormally cold in others? Its all apart of the damage from gas from those massive SUVs.