[H2bill]

As has been said, if you're going to sweat the price of gas, you won't enjoy the Hummer. I factored that in when I bought it. The joy I get from driving it more than makes up for the mileage difference I would have gotten with the '07 Tahoe I also considered.

Although the price per gallon may go up even more, I don't think it will just keep going up and up. I believe OPEC is well aware that if the price per barrel exceeds a certain point, then it truly will be worth while for major industry to develop alternative fuel sources and put a real hurt on them. We still haven't got to that point.

As to the constant references to Bush getting rich on oil profits, I don't see it. He's the most powerful man in the world already (why else do the rich want to get richer?), doesn't pay for a thing, has his own 747, and he'll retire a rich man (as did Clinton). So I just don't see the motive. There's nothing stopping you from buying 10,000 shares of exxon or BP and reaping the benfits of an oil dependent country, is there?