Gas Guzzlers?

Auto makers are in it with the oil companies. No big secret there. People love their big vehicles. When I go tho the city and see these little sissies in their jacked up four-by's, I laugh. Most of them have never been in four wheel drive, and none of them really know how to use it. I own a full size 4x4 pickup because I live in a small town in the mountains. I use it to haul firewood when I cut in the fall, hay for my horse, furniture, and stuff like that. I also use it when I go camping. We also have a geo metro and a AWD subaru for commuting. The Subaru does better in the ice and snow than my four wheel drive v-8 pickup. When I can, I ride my bike instead of driving. It's ok to have a big pickup truck for hauling crap, but people should have something else for hauling themselves around.

Ever try to pull a horse trailer with a Volkswagen Rabbit? It probably wouldn't work too well, since the horses and trailer weigh more than the car.

Yeah, some people do not have a "need" for a large vehicle, but many do.

This is not an issue of intelligence. Some cars are too small for some people. Some small cars are impractical for families. The government mandates child seats (a good thing, in my opinion) and in many small cars you simply can not put three car seats in the back of a car. With recommendations that kids need to be in a booster until they are over 80 pounds, many have to get a vehicle with a third row seat, often an SUV or minivan.

I remember going to test drive a Toyota Tercel a few years back. I liked the car until I sat down and my knees touched the dash and I couldn't steer the car with my knees that close. I am tall and have had similar problems with other cars.

And many people want be safe. I know that many small cars are safer than they used to be, but the subcompact cars still are not safer than larger cars.

not all of us fit in a crappo box. Some of us enjoy the outdoors such as going offroad, going to the mountains crossing a few streams to do this. That being said most of the tools that buy these huge trucks to drive around the suburbs are morons. They are status symbols nothing more.

And to the dip a H2 weighs 6400lbs. 8500 is the gross vehicle weight. Get with big bird and me here. 2000lbs is a ton that would make a h2 3.2 tons

A Hummer2 has a 32 gal gas tank, weighs 8600lbs (the H1 weighs 10,300lbs) and the gas milege is so bad it is not listed on the web site. Of course, hauling around that much weight, they probably get way less than 10 mile/gal.

Okay, yes, if you just happen to be in Iraq with sniper bullets and bombs coming your way all day, it might be a good time to have a car that weighs almost 2 tons. Other than that I can't think of a single reason to have a car that cost more than my first house and sucks up fossil fuels like a drunk at a bar sucks up bourbon.

By nature, people are not smart. It is total vanity, driving an impractical vehicle like a Hummer or an Escalade. Even if mass transit was free, people would still drive thier cars. If it was guaranteed that you could ride the bus for free and the commute would take half the time that it does in your car, people still would drive. People seem to care more about how they are seen rather than doing things that are right. A bus pass is about $30 a month, and most employers have a reimbursement program so it ends up being free. Doesn't that sound better than a payment and insurance? We could all save alot of money...........

I do not know...why don't you ask most of those who are screaming about global warming and our addiction to foreign oil. Al Gore and this private jets and SUVs. Arriana Huffington (sp?) and her limos and jets. John (I don't own an SUV, my family owns SUVs) Kerry.

I really do not care what people drive, except for their gas guzzlers make my price of gas go up due to the laws of supply and demand.

That being said, I support their right to get about 2 miles to the dollar if they choose. I have a small SUV I only drive when I have at least 6 people in the car, a truck I only drive when I need to haul something, and an Acura which gets me around 28 that I drive EVERYWHERE ELSE!

I hope my sannity in my vehicle choices helps keep your gas prices down.

Thank you for your question, gas guzzlers are proof of the disrespect people have for all of us, you can see it everyday in the way people drive, like it is a private hyway only for them, really to bad, the auto company's and large vehicle users should pay a heavy fine for the greed, but will never happen because it starts with politics and big business..but rest assured with the fast rise in population the day is coming when small and no gas will be the only answer..

The final time gasoline expenses have been this intense the sole human beings procuring SUVs have been undesirable human beings. like the previous shaggy dog tale is going, "Q: How lots is a used Hummer rather worth? A: relies upon on how lots gasoline is interior the tank." Oh nicely. It replaced into exciting for a pair of years, precise?

bill is an idiot. there is such a thing as global warming so shut the front door . people really need to stop denying global warming. i guess that they will actually see it in 30 years when the average temperature will be 136 degrees. =]

Well, yeah, people could buy smaller cars, but why, if they want the big ones and have the money to buy all that gas.

You get a small, zippy little car, you'll save on gas. But pay a fortune for insurance.

Other thing is, it might be that if everyone got these little cars and bought less gas, they might raise the price even more, to still make their profit. What would we save then?