I'm a SAHD with 2 kids and until recently a medium sized dog. Our VW Golf more than covered our needs the majority of their life (even with the occasional fifth passenger). I share a minvan with a family member now, but that's really overkill for 90% of our driving. And really, many on this forum would facepunch me for not driving around in something fueled by burritos and free range eggs.
It's not luxury that I have a problem with. By all means buy a Tesla if you have the dough. It's the fact that they're operating something that negatively affects my life and they used some really fuzzy logic to justify it.
From what I can tell these people aren't pulling an 8,000 lbs trailer for a living, and they're not one of these religious extremists that think they need to repopulate the world with their spawn (and using all 8 seat belts in the process). No, they just like to stretch out and I'd imagine, feel powerful. Here's the problem.
Large trucks like Suburbans have higher bumper locations and perhaps 2-4 times the mass ofmy Golf or Civic. That means when ms. soccer mom has to talk to her buddy on the phone without even a hands free device and doesn't notice my considerably smaller car, I'm more likely to die in our collision.
The Suburban is getting a whopping 15/21 MPG. That means I have to deal with more fracking, more middle east oil and the potential of more oil spills, pipelines, tanker crashes etc.
That substantially lower MPG rating means you're pouring substantially more crap into the atmosphere. Even if you don't believe in global warming (yes, you deserve a facepunch if so) you're contributing to all sorts of societal issues like smog and poor brain development for children that live near roadways and petroleum refineries.
Decisions like these hurt all of us.