The Irony of 'safer' SUVs?

The fans of large SUVs claim such vehicles are safer than small cars and that making vehicles smaller would only increase the number of fatalities from automobile accidents.

While it is probably true that if a Honda Fit crashes into a Cadillac Escalade, chances are the person in the Fit will suffer more injuries. Thus, it isn't necessarily that small cars are unsafe, but that large vehicles are dangerous.

But let's forget that debate. For everyone's safety, should all Americans drive an Escalade or a Tahoe, or like-sized vehicle?

What would America's fuel economy be like then? How many more millions of gallons of oil from American-hating countries would have to imported every day? How high would gas prices be then?

I don't know, but it seems unlikely such a set of circumstances would make Americans safer.