Was that part of the Pentium marketing plan?Cute Fuzzy Bunny said:Maybe the SUV owners will push us along to an alternative to the gas engine a little quicker...
Gas Guzzler definition = MPG less than Honda ElementCaroline said:What counts as a gas guzzler?
I drive a Honda Element -- 4 cylinders but still, it is a small SUV. I camp, sleep, and haul with it, but it would be hard to say I "need" it for anything.
While I MAY have something to say about Expedition and Hummer owners, I'm not throwing any stones until you define your terms!
You are too much!Cool Dood said:I don't drive one myself -- I don't drive anything -- but I wholeheartedly support gas-guzzler drivers, and I think those vehicles are cool. The only thing related to gas-guzzlers that pisses me off is all the complaining I've heard about them, non-stop for years. Seriously, what's it to you that other people like driving cool vehicles? They're the ones paying for their gas, and for the machines themselves.
I also think it's funny that people discuss them in terms of their drivers' needs. Totally irrelevant to what a person chooses to drive. It warms the cockles of my heart to see someone driving an SUV through my corner of terrain-free suburbia.
(Of course, in most cases they probably can't really afford it and would be well-advised to have bought something else for financial reasons, but that's something else entirely...)
Dan, WHAT problems I work in the oil business. These guys are going to pay for my kids' education and my retiremement. I have beach-front property in Churchill, Manitoba. Global warming will make me rich.I blame all big SUV owners for all our problems today! Cheesy
I don't drive one myself -- I don't drive anything -- but I wholeheartedly support gas-guzzler drivers, and I think those vehicles are cool. T
Seriously, what's it to you that other people like driving cool vehicles? They're the ones paying for their gas, and for the machines themselves
Caroline said:Well... there's the whole environmental thing. Ignoring that can of worms, I can report that safety was a big factor in my abandoning my dear, 14-year-old Camry for something with front and side airbags, AND something that rode a little higher and weighed a little more.
I mean, I'd pull into a parking lot in my Camry, look over at the SOB... er... SUV next to me, and find my head at the same height as their headlights. Let's face it, in an accident with one of these dreadnoughts, I'd be hamburger meat.
It does bother me that my choice was in part based on having to play defense.
FWIW
Caroline
Cool Dood said:I wholeheartedly support gas-guzzler drivers, and I think those vehicles are cool. The only thing related to gas-guzzlers that pisses me off is all the complaining I've heard about them, non-stop for years. Seriously, what's it to you that other people like driving cool vehicles? They're the ones paying for their gas, and for the machines themselves.
gmb said:
Ed_The_Gypsy said:Dan, WHAT problems I work in the oil business. These guys are going to pay for my kids' education and my retiremement. I have beach-front property in Churchill, Manitoba. Global warming will make me rich.
Ed The Gypsy