Curt Raymond wrote:
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?
It has been modified to $3 a gallon, last I heard. Who knows what it will really take.
Personally, as much as high prices hurt, I have a hard time seeing it as a bad thing over the long term. The world has changed and in the past couple years several billion people (China, India, and the former USSR) have found themselves at the doorstep to the "good life" that has previously been the exclusive domain of North America, Western Europe, and Japan. They're not going to turn away from their newfound prosperity so we're going to have to adapt, and high oil prices are the impetus for that change. Everyone (including Mother Earth) will be better off for it.
You can still have your Escalade, you're just going to have to either demand a smarter means of propulsion or quit bitching about what it costs to fill it up. I'm doing my part.
Tom '82 300D - 27mpg, so no more commuting '96 Passat TDI - 45mpg, 60 mile a day commuter wundercar
