Hummer's Peak Oil Dive
Oh, how the mighty have fallen! While the automotive geniuses of GM where promoting the Hummer to the Hollywood glitterati and wannabe's, Toyota was planning for a peak oil future with the Prius.
General Motors Corp. announced week that it was considering ways to downsize the brand -- last month, sales plummeted 60% compared with May 2007 -- sell it off or kill it outright. Chairman Rick Wagoner's "all options" remark didn't leave a lot of hope for fans of the quasi-military sport utility vehicle. Obituaries will be many and eulogies will be few.
"GM killed the electric car and now skyrocketing gas prices have crushed the Hummer," said Arianna Huffington, who founded the Detroit Project, an effort to pressure automakers to make more fuel-efficient cars.
"The Hummer embodied the worst impulses of the American auto industry," said Josh Donner, spokesman for the Sierra Club reported to Dan Neil of the LA Times, which also created a shame-based campaign against the Hummer, including the satiric website Hummerdinger.com. "GM's move this week shows the absolute bankruptcy of GM's business model."
Posted by Casey Kazan.
Poor Hummer...well, I'm still gonna get one...and prolly put it in the showroom.
Posted by: Howie | June 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Wow. A ray of hope, a glimmer of sunshine! This news has made my day. Perhaps my week. I have long believed that Hummer drivers should be (at minimum) flipped off for driving these wretched, over-chromed monuments to excess. To see their sales numbers going down like a crack whore in an alleyway fills my little black heart with a sort of gnarled glee.
Posted by: Dave | June 20, 2008 at 01:17 PM