Thread: The oil crisis may kill the hummer.

I may be one of the few who likes the hummer...what a bummer.

Good i hate that car. It drives like shit anyway. I don't know how the price compares but i'll take a Range over that shitbox of a truck any day.

plus one for the range and land rovers. fun to drive easier to fix.

Originally Posted by Yanick

Good i hate that car. It drives like shit anyway. I don't know how the price compares but i'll take a Range over that shitbox of a truck any day.

A new loaded Range Rover (not the sport) is nearly twice the cost of a new H2.

It's a car that gets 12 MPG and is named after the blowjob. What did they expect?

Tell me about it, goob is now charging a gas tax for his hummers it takes all the fun out of them.....

Originally Posted by maniclion

Tell me about it, goob is now charging a gas tax for his hummers it takes all the fun out of them.....

The Hummer seems to be about ego. Big. Tough-looking.

In Texas, you get a tax break for buying one. Oil.

There is no oil crisis - but the days of cheap oil are over. Expect SUVs to diminish as most SUV owners don't even take them off of paved roads. Very silly.

Good riddance.

There is no oil crisis - but the days of cheap oil are over.

The crisis is being felt in my pocket, I was around when we had the fuel crisis in the 70's....that was an odd time.

Expect SUVs to diminish as most SUV owners don't even take them off of paved roads. Very silly.

That would be me, I only paid $1,200 for it 2 years ago, a Explorer 2002.
Good riddance.[/quote]

eh my wife has a suv and i drive a 4x4 as well. mostly a safety issue in the winter. i prefer to have some thing with a bit more wieght to it. if gas prices keep climbing summer beaters will be purchased though.

Originally Posted by DOMS

It's a car that gets 12 MPG and is named after the blowjob. What did they expect?

exactly. any vehicle that's so bad about fuel that it comes with two gas tanks has no place on the road

Originally Posted by min0 lee

The crisis is being felt in my pocket, I was around when we had the fuel crisis in the 70's....that was an odd time.
That would be me, I only paid $1,200 for it 2 years ago, a Explorer 2002.
Good riddance.

Yes, Min0, I think a lot of Americans are feeling the pinch in their pocket.

Let's just look at the development of US suburbs since post-WWII.

People driving from the burb they live in, to the city center, or from the suburb they live in, to the suburb they work in.

Driving. Everyday.

It's basically a fixed expense. Where I live I have to have a car. I couldn't get to work by public transport, which is a limited bus system.

The only control many (but not all) Americans have is to lower their fixed gasoline expense by purchasing cars with higher MPG, and/or driving less often to do errands, visit family, travel by car, etc.

I personally don't like driving cars when I live in large cities.

I don't like Seattle because of the city's lack of planning on public transportation. People I know in Seattle consider taking the bus to be "low class." And they never developed light rail, and the mono-rail died.

I lived in Los Angeles. We all know how LA is (even with the subway, now).

I lived in Washington DC (inside the District) and took the subway to work, and didn't even own a car for a year. I loved it.

When I worked and lived in Waikiki I didn't own a car. I walked to work 12 blocks away, stopped and bought a few things for 3 nights worth of dinners every few days cause the super market was right there and partied at bars all within walking distance. I got so much exercise I was able to eat anything I wanted cause I walked it off each day. If i wanted to get someplace fast I'd borrow a friends motorcycle or moped, be able to park close to where ever i was going. Even when I lived in Waikiki while in the Navy I'd take the bus to work at Pearl Harbor and then take the bus to within 6 miles from home then walk the rest of the way stopping halfway at a Starbuck or Barnes and Nobles to do some reading and writing then walk the rest of the way home. I really miss the bus I got so much reading and writing done in those days and the stress of traffic never touched me. Now I hate commuting back and forth but catching the bus for this job would mean getting up at 4:30 every morning and not getting home until 6:30 at night I'd never have time at home...though I do like the reading/writing time I'd have on the Bus but I think the buses are more crowded these days so I probably wouldn't get a seat half the time....

Originally Posted by maniclion

Tell me about it, goob is now charging a gas tax for his hummers it takes all the fun out of them.....

Haha, got to expell my emissions somewhere.....

Originally Posted by goob

Haha, got to expell my emissions somewhere.....

That's why I swallow - I'm very environmentally friendly!

I'm just doing my part in the overall destruction of the moral fabric of society - how am I doing?

Originally Posted by Big Smoothy

I lived in Washington DC (inside the District) and took the subway to work, and didn't even own a car for a year. I loved it.

In NYC you really don't need a car to go to work.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

In NYC you really don't need a car to go to work.

True, I know. You're in NYC and you bought an SUV.

Just curious, as to why. (No offense.)

Originally Posted by Big Smoothy

True, I know. You're in NYC and you bought an SUV.

Just curious, as to why. (No offense.)

I only paid a thousand two hundred for it, can't pass that up.

Shopping, if I have to make more than 1 stop say go to 3 boroughs in one day/

Going to work on mass transit is the way to go.

Ive been riding my 2000 CBR 929 RR almost everyday now cuz my other mode of transportation is a 99 Trans Am. Now these cars are equipped with a pretty fuel efficient V8 engine that makes serious power, but its still not an eco engine.

However, to fill it up (both the bike and car) I have to put in supreme. Yeah...So I am really really concerned with this gas price shit.

Oh and fuck the Hummer. Nothing wrong with getting rid of shit like that. At least I can use the quality of my car EVERYWHERE. Might break some speeding laws here and there, but its easier than finding a trail or dirt road around here..

There are plenty of vehicles that use just as much gas as a Hummer.

Originally Posted by TexanTA1996

A new loaded Range Rover (not the sport) is nearly twice the cost of a new H2.

Point taken. I still don't like the Hummer, and i'm speaking purely from a driver's standpoint. I've been valeting for years now and have driven pretty much every car you see on the streets plus a few exotics. Hummer's are big, awkward monsters with terrible turning radius, a sluggish throttle response, and terrible visibility. The interior is so-so, not even as roomy as one would think looking at it from the side.

I don't see how the price of gas would affect the ability for a chick to give me a hum...

Originally Posted by maniclion

Tell me about it, goob is now charging a gas tax for his hummers it takes all the fun out of them.....

dammit, he beat me to it!