Mighty Hummer meets its match in gas prices

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Mr T wrote:

I wouldn't feel safe driving one of those tiny european cars with all of the escalades, hummers and explorers on the road. Until people change their mindsets and start driving smaller cars, our roads will not be micro-car, motorcycle or scooter friendly

I don't worry about a Hummer ramming me; I worry about a 52' trailer with a tractor that is bigger and more expensive than my house with a driver that has 3 hours sleep in the last 3 days. When all the nazis out there are able to get the trucks regulated (no product should be allowed to be moved on a truck for more than 100 miles if a train could have taken it, for example) then they can start on the Suv's.

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How fast do you actually think we can obtain oil from this "new' drilling on US soil? Think really hard. OK.... what are we going to do for the next 10 years?

Mile wrote:

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Or we could just use the oil we already own. Let them drill. This is the fastest route to removing our reliance on the middle east.

[The Foosball Fan]

Enjoy Capitalism wrote:

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You sound like a Communist.

Sorry to disappoint you that I'm not a Pinko. American Consumers have a right to choose what they want, but it is not always what is best for themselves and the population as a whole.

The housing bubble is a perfect example of that point. Now all these people who wanted more house than they could afford want the government to bail them out. The people who were capable to afford the home they live in are watching the value of their home drop b.c. they are surrounded by homes in default or foreclosure.

[Mike Paton]

No snow? How can that be bad? That only hurts Florida's snowbird visitation. Pluses are no shoveling, no salty roads, no school days off, no power outages, shorter winters, no slips and falls, less heating in the winter. I can dig this AGW.

[Matt_PSU]

Dave wrote:

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I am not an engineer, but my guess would be that the Hummer is way to heavy of a car to run in a Hybrid mode. My guess is they would totally have to redesign it.
Either way, times are changing. It is time for this V8 chapter to come to an end. I am sick of being watching desert ridden countries control our economy. We need to back out of our dependancy on oil. If everyone started driving smaller vehicles, we wouldn't have this keeping up w/the Jones's thinking. This transition is going to be painful, but not impossible.

They designed a chevy Yukon that is capable of running in a full hybrid or partial hybrid mode. It gets the same gas mileage as a midsize car.

So yeah it's possible.

Note that the hummer H3 is much lighter and shares the same platform as the chevy colorado.

[Matt_PSU]

name not important wrote:

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I don't worry about a Hummer ramming me; I worry about a 52' trailer with a tractor that is bigger and more expensive than my house with a driver that has 3 hours sleep in the last 3 days. When all the nazis out there are able to get the trucks regulated (no product should be allowed to be moved on a truck for more than 100 miles if a train could have taken it, for example) then they can start on the Suv's.

Do you have any idea how slow intermodal can be? It is great from an efficiency standpoint, but the speed costs it dearly and makes it impossible for many items.

[Mike Paton]

I'd rather have a 4X4 in flood to.

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Morton wrote:

Americans are HOGS...from their FAT HOG motorcycles to their Bummer hummers.
They are arrogant, materialistic and generally wasteful.
They are going to pay a heavy price and soon , it is gonna be a hard landing from a Hummer to a motor scooter

Feel free to hop in your Prius and get the F out then.

Anytime you can manage to run a Roofing company on scooters you let me know.

You think the price of gas is expensive here? This is just the beginning. If YOU can't afford it YOU can walk to work or carpool. Don't pretend you know what's best for anything other than yourself.

Like the Prius is so green anyways,$3000 worth of batteries so toxic to the environment that the factory that produces them has no vegetation or wildlife for miles. Forget about how they dispose of the old ones.

Liberals..

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Morton wrote:

One HOG Nation with Hog Liberty and Hog Justice for all
I have an OINK model Hummer, so people will admire me.

Yeah screw the Republic who needs personal liberties or freedom, where's Karl Marx when we need him, he could spout off crap from the Communist Manifesto while you shined his boots.

[name not important]

Matt_PSU wrote:

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Do you have any idea how slow intermodal can be? It is great from an efficiency standpoint, but the speed costs it dearly and makes it impossible for many items.

Well, as a train buff I'm pretty knowledgable. Intermodals are not as fast, but are cheaper, and more to my earlier post, more efficient. The amount of time is also based on the present paradigm. If it was important enought they could make it faster. If this country wanted high speed train routes and was willing to pay fair prices, I have confidence that BNSF and CSX and NS etc would make it happen. You might be surprised at how well they are already doing. Here is a great article. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortun...

[Tattoo Rosie]

Marcia wrote:

People driving Hummers look like total idiots,but it's good for a laugh I guess.

I agree. Never understood why a city dweller would want to have a big SUV unless it was for hauling stuff for business or emergency vehicles. And when the drivers of SUVs slow down to one m.p.h. to drive over the speed bumps at the mall - the vehicles were made for rough driving.
Good riddance to the Hummer. Unless you live in the mountains, they are kind of useless.

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The Foosball Fan wrote:

Nothing cracks me up more than a stay-at-home suburbia soccer mom who drives a Hummer to shuttle her kids between school, home, and after school activities. The husbands who bought their wives Hummers are just as foolish.

Who cares? Maybe these families you're stereotyping only drive 50 miles a week. We had an H3 as a rental and it was pretty comfortable.

Does it fit our lifestyle? No, we drive a ton of miles.