SUVs

Let’s kill two birds with one stone. Let’s take the patently inefficient, non-carpool-encouraging diamond lanes and turn them into SUV-mandatory lanes.

By requiring all noncommercial, visually obstructive vehicles to line up single file, blocking each other’s views, it will encourage people to buy the low, light, fuel-efficient vehicles known as automobiles. Remember those?

ALAN HOLLEB

Santa Monica

* Isn’t it odd that certain segments of our population get villainized almost at random. We have been through NRA members, angry white males, police officers, the paparazzi, smokers, illegal immigrants, professional athletes, attorneys and Newt Gingrich, to name a few.

The latest menace is the driver of that sport utility vehicle. The insurance industry wants to raise the rates on SUV owners so that they will pay what the industry considers their fair share.

Whose rates will be going down as a result?

THOMAS A. BUTTERWORTH

Newport Beach