SUV's all get lumped together. My Toyota 4Runner does about as well on gas as most mini-vans and nobody seems to write articles in the paper complaining about the gas used by the soccor mommies driving around in mini-vans. (how can you tell that irks me?) I can justify the 4Runner living up here in the great white north. 4 Wheel drive is worth its weight in gold during the winters. All wheel drive cars are out there but don't have any clearance. I can still get out when there is a foot of the white stuff in the lane.
I had a Chevy Suburban previously and loved it. Haul anything you want and tow anything you want and haul up to 9 passengers with seat belts on. However, most of my driving is not loaded and I couldn't justify another one, hence the 4Runner. Randy in Winnipeg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 7:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MBZ] diesel prices In a message dated 8/16/2005 9:35:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like to blame the people driving the monster SUVs with only one person in the car that I see commuting every day. I also like to blame automakers that are so slow to respond to changes in the market. General Motors responds to slumping SUV sales by restyling. Apparently nobody at the general has noticed gas prices... I seem to remember something maybe a year ago where the automakers were saying that it would take a year of gas prices above $2 a gallon to make SUV and truck sales slump. I haven't heard anything about that in quite awhile. Anybody else remember that? If you were to compare SUV's and such to smaller cars, figuring in the amount of oil used in making the huge plastic parts also, I wonder what the total oil consumption over the life of the vehicles would average out to. Not very scientific but probably pretty eye-opening for some. I think alot of the SUV craze goes along with convenience. I watched a woman one day filling her huge Excursion with the cheapest gas she could get, at the time just over $2.00, all the while just a bitchin' about the price of gas. I then walked over to her, asked how much she paid for the bottle of water she was drinking($1.19) and then pointed out that, for convenience, she had paid around 8 times as much for that bottled water than she was paying per gallon for gasoline. She stared at me, looked at the water bottle and said"Oh well" and went right back to complaining about the gas. As long as it's convenient pay for it with a credit card and bitch....It's the American way......;>( Disgusted with credit and tired of hearing people complain while driving 10mpg gallon trucks, Mike
