Right from the beginning Hochswender pulls you in with an ingenious inductive device, the title Did My Car Join Al Qaeda? That title immediately grabs the readers attention and makes one want to find the answer to the question. Persuasive or not, Hoshswender definitely gets some points for creativity and originality. One argument is that by owning a SUV you are wasteful because of the poor MPG (Hochswender, 2003). Another argument is, because of SUV's being top heavy they roll over resulting in cars being safer. Lets take a look out how the author rebuts these notions about the SUV.
Hochswender starts off with a logical perspective of why he and many people who live in the same area as him own SUV's and light trucks, and that is the copious
