My liberal concious...should I not buy that FORD EXPLORER?

[iconoclastNYC]

Ok so here's the deal. I live in NYC and I use the subway all the time. But the thing is you want to get out of the city now and then...maybe tool over to Philly or upstate or out to the beach.

A few years back my mother was working a position at her company which required her to actually drive over train tracks so she had to buy a vehicle with higher clearance and she got a used Explorer.

Now she doesn't have that position anymore and when gas prices spiked she bought a car. She's mothballed the Explorer.

OK so she's offered to sell it to me very cheap. It has high miles but still I think $2,000 is a good price.

Now I hate SUVs more then anyone, but this thing is basically going to sit parked all by five days or so a month.

Can I rationalize buying the SUV by thinking that I prevent a commuter from buying it?

And then there's that whole FORD issue. What do you think I should do?