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I like Hummers. I like the size the styling and if you know how to drive you can do some pretty interesting stuff with them both on and off road. I will say they are a bit too wide for the off road driving I do in my Jeep cj5. It btw is lifted with big tires locked differentials front and rear gets about 5mpg pollutes like nobody's business and was my daily driver for 2 years putting 60 miles on the odometer every day. And that dose not include all the environmental destruction I wreaked in it driving it off road.
Any how, I will say most owners / drivers don't need HMMV's nor do they use them to there best potential. They do however get better gas mileage then my jeep and pollute far less. In all of there models.
I'm a car guy. I own allot and do allot of senseless and useless driving. Get this, during the summer I drive a little 4cylinder car around in circles on a clay race track with allot of other cars. As part of the rules we are required to remove the catalytic converters. Pretty cool huh?
My point is though. People will drive what is available and what they want to drive. they do however have to want to drive it. I would be perfectly willing and happy to drive an alternatively powered car if it were affordable and convenient. right now the only autos that fit into that category for me are powered by petrol.
As for wasting petrol, what makes it wasting? If I buy it I can do whatever I want to with it. What makes it yours or anyone else's any more then mine? if you want to keep people from wasting your petrol then go buy more so no one else can. The taxes I pay by buying a car and the fuel to operate it are allot of what builds and maintain the roads in this country. If I buy more fuel then you shouldn't I get a lane of travel a bit wider then yours? of course not but you do get a better road because I am providing 5 times as much tax dollars to the fund. So by that thought If I want do drive a really big gas hog and take up what you think is too much space shouldn't I think I am entitled to that?
In conclusion, I like hummers. I don't mind bad fuel economy. I am not opposed to alternative fuels but I cant afford to purchase a brand new car just to make someone else happy. If I were given one for free, I'd drive the hell out of it but for now, I'll stick with my older petrol powered cars and trucks. Of witch I own 9 right now, the oldest is a 1959 Buick and the newest is a 1991 exploder
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