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
Founder and CEO
Reuben, Raucher & Blum
Phone: (310) 777-1990
Email: treuben@rrbattorneys.com
Reuben is the founder and CEO at Reuben Raucher & Blum. Alongside his extensive career as a civil litigator specializing in complex matters at both the trial and appellate level, he serves pro bono as a temporary judge and settlement officer for the Los Angeles Superior Court, as well as a fee arbitrator for the LA County Bar.
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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