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Originally Posted by Charlatan
The average male car buyer is obsessed with horsepower. "Fuel economy is for pussies, give me a hemi!"
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And the average male car buyer reads a lot of car magazines and probably loves the movie "xXx" which creates his entire "buying mood" in the first place. Oh and let's not forget the Speed channel.
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
The only way I see it coming to an end is when the price of fuel gets high enough to increase consumer demand for either fuel efficiency or alternative and cheaper fuels... otherwise it will just be more of the same.
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I would have to say that it could be feasible IF in popular culture we started seeing the equating of low mpg vehicles with the necessity to create an energy policy which sanctions force against nations we are dependant upon. Of course that would require us to accept two basic facts:
1. We kill for oil
2. Pop culture defines us more than we define pop culture
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Yes of course, no SUV's, pickup trucks, or vans in Canada  |
There's a hidden beauty in your statement Ustwo, you have pointed out that Charlatan unwittingly accepts the integration of Canada into the United States. I make similar statements all the time.