Uh oh, Hummer is growing by leaps and bounds, and now the hippies are really getting upset. This warm winter has them freaked out too!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russel...o_b_37975.html
AOL's popular Autoblog site has a post in which they cite stats listing the 2006 vs. 2005 sales statistics for most major automobile brands.
In terms of sales, the fastest-increasing brand is HUMMER. From 2005 to 2006, sales were up 24.30% at 71,524 (2005: 56,727).
I hate Hummers. Not only are they guzzlers but they instantly brand you as an "I'm bad" militaristic freak- kind of like the meth dealer busted with four angry pit bulls in his pad.
OK, so you think you are so macho, Hummer-owner? Tell me what country the gasoline in your Hummer probably came from, and where most of the 9-11 hijackers came from?
Bingo.
And if that question makes you boil, well, how about you or someone you know signing up and becoming part of the Iraq troop "surge" Bush thinks he needs to fight the terrorists over there so they don't fight us over here?
But maybe you are busy today, out and about in balmy weather likely precipitated by the cumulative effects of global warming. And your Hummer ain't helping.
Just be thankful you aren't a polar bear looking for ice, ice, baby- Like in some of Robert Winslow's wonderful polar bear photos.
I'd like to interject some commentary here by "jonaspdx," one of my fellow Bloggers on the Portland Metroblog:
Did no one see (and believe) An Inconvenient Truth? Does no one remember that we're at war (one that some would say was over oil) and maybe, just maybe, conservation is a good idea, no matter how much the president tells you to drive big cars or go shopping?
I can't believe they allow these things to be passenger vehicles at all, and I'm hoping (most likely to no avail, as there are far more pressing things to take care of first) that one of the actions of our new Congress over the next few years might be to eliminate the tax loophole that actually makes buying these beasts a tax deduction if it's bought for business use or at least make the CAFE standards apply to large vehicles, which they currently do not.
Yea, I know, we Portlanders are liberal. But lookit. Plenty of Hummer drivers and unseasonably warm temperatures throughout the U.S.
You're right, jonaspdx.
Yea, I know I am part of the problem. But not as much as you. I drive a car, too. But mine is kinder, gentler, not a chariot of a warrior than your beast, Hummer driver.