Cartoon Tuesday: Outmoded
By
Ben Fried
3:16 PM PDT on July 15, 2008
From Dick Locher of the Chicago Tribune comes a cartoon complement to Judith Warner’s essay in the New York Times last Friday, declaring that SUVs have outlived any “utility” owners may once have derived from them.
Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.
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