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Originally Posted by blade02
Hummer H1s and the military spec Humvees are very useful vehicles. H2's on the other hand aren't very useful for anything other than moving around lots of people on paved roads. They arent any worse than Escalades, Suburbans, Tahoes, Expeditions, or any other large SUV. So unless you haul your kids around in a minivan or station wagon, you dont have much room to talk about the H2, and the H3 will be even smaller and more practical.
As far as making a MPG requirement, etc. It should be left to me to decide how much money Im willing to spend on gasoline for my car. Thats the point behind a free market. Its my hard earned money, and I should be able to use it to fuel a V-8 powered muscle car if I freaking want to. If we manage to run out of gasoline, or if gas prices rise too high, then I'll be willing to spend my money on something that doesnt run off gas. Its not like the earth will implode if we use all of the gas, we'll just have to switch to something different. I've never quite understood all of the panic and silliness.
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I don't care how much money you feel like spending - then go burn it in a huge pile in your fireplace, if that's what you want to do. But your choice to waste a whole lot of fuel DOES affect me, and everyone else. It means you're burning through the supply we have even faster, and sending yet more pollution into the air, and you're still in a really huge car in the way and 9 out of 10 times, you're acting like an asshole (that's the general you, not YOU you).
As for SUVs, trucks, etc: I think 8 out of 10 people (and we all know how reliable my decided stats are!
) who own them in MY area (being NYC, Queens, all very urban) are just dicks who want to have huge cars and drive like, well, dicks. They're unnecessary and annoying to the rest of us, and wasteful as hell. Their business? Sure, until they are parking poorly, taking up more than their fair share of space, driving like idiots, etc. So no, they're not any better than Hummers. Hummers are just the most extreme example of the assholes I'm talking about.
I'm not complaining about necessary usage, I'm complaining about ego usage. If you have that much of a complex, buy a sports car and get the hell out of my way.