Get ready for $4.00 a gallon gas prices in the US.

[MattTheSkywalker]

Your irony is noted, but you missed my point.

I got your point, I have seen it many times...lived in GA for a while as well as LA before coming to Florida, see the 'pick-up truck posers' all over the place.

And I share some of your concern about SUV wielding boneheads; some lady backed into my Lexus IN A PARKING LOT while I was parked. I fear them.

Nevertheless I prefer to be able to drive whatever I damn well please. A fleet of H1s if I so desire.

 

[tiger88]

damn....my cAr sucks up gas like a mofo and she only takes premium

 

[velvett]

Your irony is noted, but you missed my point.

You're funny.
Cool.

 

[Whiskey]

I know that you can buy performance parts that both up you gas mileage and horsepower. So why don't manufacturers already do this to their vehicles??? It wouldn't fix the problem of low gas mileage, but it would help.

Whiskey

 

[RottenWillow]

Nevertheless I prefer to be able to drive whatever I damn well please. A fleet of H1s if I so desire.

I wouldnt suggest limiting your freedom to spend your money as you choose. However I'm exercising my right to raise hell about them.

I constantly find myself in traffic and I'm the only person who's actually...GASP!....in a car. Boxed in on all sides by giant four door trucks and SUVs. I might have to look 2-3 vechicles ahead of myself to find the next nearest car. Oh and for those who've never lived in Atl, you should know that all the new people who've moved here over the past 10 years or so think the speed limits are 80mph and above. Combine this with the locomotives they ALL insist on driving now and it scares the shit out of me to share the roads with them.

Massive tires means a lot of rubber. Rubber burns off tires in powder like form and gets deposited on the sides of our roads in hundred of tons worth polluting our soil. Big engines means more emissions. Smog in Atl has become a huge problem and is actually accelerating despite tightening emission controls. Too many single occupant vehicles combined with the proliferation of huge SUVS and trucks getting an average of 16-18 fricking miles to the gallon.

 

[jerkbox]

Nevertheless I prefer to be able to drive whatever I damn well please. A fleet of H1s if I so desire.

consumer marketing at it's best......everyone gotta have their Hummer or Navigator....because that's what the cool people have.....

it's a wasteful status symbol...pure decadence

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

I wouldnt suggest limiting your freedom to spend your money as you choose. However I'm exercising my right to raise hell about them.

I constantly find myself in traffic and I'm the only person who's actually...GASP!....in a car. Boxed in on all sides by giant four door trucks and SUVs. I might have to look 2-3 vechicles ahead of myself to find the next nearest car. Oh and for those who've never lived in Atl, you should know that all the new people who've moved here over the past 10 years or so think the speed limits are 80mph and above. Combine this with the locomotives they ALL insist on driving now and it scares the shit out of me to share the roads with them.

Massive tires means a lot of rubber. Rubber burns off tires in powder like form and gets deposited on the sides of our roads in hundred of tons worth polluting our soil. Big engines means more emissions. Smog in Atl has become a huge problem and is actually accelerating despite tightening emission controls. Too many single occupant vehicles combined with the proliferation of huge SUVS and trucks getting an average of 16-18 fricking miles to the gallon.

I remember my time in Atlanta. I used to come down the highway where 75 and 85 merge at about 110 MPH in my little Saturn. Then I looked around and everyone was doing the same thing. I loved it.

I didn't love the traffic, and my speeds were often much lower because some incompetent bozo usually caused a wreck that slowed everything.

I remember one time on the six-lane portion of said highway, this black lady was driving like 20 MPH (not exaggerating) in the right lane. her head was sticking out the window, and she was waving to oncoming cars to 'let her in' as she continued to move left across the highway.

Ahhhh.....Atlanta

 

[jerkbox]

oh, and not to mention they are giant death traps.....

 

[beastboy]

You must hate me.....I drive a 35K truck....but I do haul stuff.

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

consumer marketing at it's best......everyone gotta have their Hummer or Navigator....because that's what the cool people have.....

it's a wasteful status symbol...pure decadence

I have a Saturn, a Lexus and a Morgan.

I am as cool as it gets.

I just don't want you or Big Brother to give me any crap when I decide to roll out a fleet of 11 Hummers. (H1s only dog, H2s are geigh)