As if you needed another reason to hate the French, now they're picking on beloved SUVs. The "Greens" took over the Paris city council, and now they hope to ban SUVs from the city. Opponents claim that they don't have the legal standing to implement such a ban, but that won't stop them from trying.

"You have to wonder why people want to drive around in SUVs," Baupin, a Greens party member, said on Europe 1 radio.

"We have no interest in having SUVs in the city. They're dangerous to others and take up too much space." [...]

"Our idea is to limit the circulation of the most polluting vehicles," he said. "That means SUVs and lots of other vehicles that don't meet European pollution standards."

It won't be long before some U.S. city tries this. My money's on San Francisco or Seattle.