Are SUVs as terrible as we keep saying they are?

A new study by Michael Sivak looks at the fuel consumption per occupant mile, and they are still worse than cars.

This TreeHugger has never quite understood the need for giant SUVs, particularly in the city, and never had much of a problem fitting our family and dog and stuff into our 2000 Outback, which was a whole lot smaller than these things. I have also spent much of my career here at TreeHugger complaining about their terrible gas consumption.

But Michael Sivak, now managing director of Sivak Applied Research, reports on Green Car Congress that it is not so simple.

© Michael Sivak via Green Car Congress