Reply to USA Today Car Safety Article

[Agriv8r]

i get one or two of those a month...if you have been in an accident with your hummer, you are a hummer owner for life......17 yr old girl rooled about 7 times, ended up on the roof and walked away....thats worth a tree or two...

[mikejr]

I know I am not willing to reduce my carbon footprint by a few hundred pounds of CO2 to drive some car that when hit by a bicycle either myself or a member of my family gets hurt or killed.

Its a matter of simple physics.....and the age old saying....size matters...especially in a accident....

[devilsfan]

What's the point of saving the environment if you're killed in a car crash before you live long enough to enjoy it?

Stacy

[Agriv8r]

[brad_p]

well you know dinosaurs use to drive hummers around and look what happened to them. The whole im gonna save the world by driving a hybird is stupid. The earth changes on its own, not because of car emissions.

[2of4]

Originally Posted by brad_p

well you know dinosaurs use to drive hummers around and look what happened to them. The whole im gonna save the world by driving a hybird is stupid. The earth changes on its own, not because of car emissions.

I wounder if it was all the methane gas from the dinosures that destroyed them. Like the article about all the flatulent cows in Wyoming being alot of the cause of gobal warming.

[jmsspratlin]

People are always going to gripe about something. As someone said earlier, when this whole "Hummers are bad" thing blows over, it'll be something else. I could care less what people say about the Hummer. I love mine and when it breaks, its just a good excuse to buy another....or maybe a H1

[DrG]

Originally Posted by devilsfan

What's the point of saving the environment if you're killed in a car crash before you live long enough to enjoy it?

From reading their line of bull, it seems these fools think that it's ok if you die in a crash as long as you protected the environment for everybody else. Of course this is coming from the same clown that said Hummers cause famines. Go figure. Talk about idiots in the press, did everyone see this article? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...d=rss.mmorford

This guy has NO FACTS at all to back up his headline. Makes me wonder if H2 sales are down or not. Wouldn't be surprising with the intro of the H3.

[Yetti]

since I do crash testing for a living many people ask if thats why I drive my H2. I just tell them I don't fit well enough in the stuff we make. so I drive what I like.

[lvs]

There is a great article in the September 2007 OUTSIDE magazine on page 32 titled "Shut up about my Truck". It's a great come back by a guy who lists all kinds of reasons why his truck is better than any "eco-friendly gas sipper".

[mikejr]

Originally Posted by Yetti

since I do crash testing for a living many people ask if thats why I drive my H2. I just tell them I don't fit well enough in the stuff we make. so I drive what I like.

I've used that line before too since I am 6'4" tall.

My wife and I were talking about this over the weekend. And we've just come to the decision that if it says HUMMER on it, its bad for the environment. If HUMMER made the Prius it would be bad for the environment. There are so many vehicles on the road and boats on the water that are much more worse for the environment then the HUMMER...but they dont get beat up like the HUMMER does...

[DrG]

Exactly, I'm 6'5" and I don't enjoy the H3. I put off buying my H2 until the H3's came out so I could compare, but one test drive convinced me.

There's a lot more big UPS vans than Hummers running around where I live and no one complains about their mileage. I've talked to several guys who drive 3/4 or 1 ton dually's who would love to get my mpg but of course those are "work trucks", even if the guy is a CPA, but Hummer remains the target for all the lower mpg vehicles. Hey, it's nice to be thought of first!!