Sunday, May 25, 2008

my dream


With gas just under $4 per gallon in Utah, and higher than $4 in other places like California, some people are finally giving up their SUVs. CNN has some videos on line that show people trying to unload their luxury barges. Funny thing is, though, they're becoming hard to get rid of. Some dealers won't buy SUVs for any price because they know it will be hard to sell them. Owners are taking big losses, as it's not a seller's market anymore. After all, do you really want a vehicle that costs $100 to fill up? My dream is that one day dealerships will be full of brand new, and used, SUVs that just sit there, rusting. Customers now walk right past the rows and rows of primitive 10 mpg trucks and SUVs and go straight to the sleek, efficient Civics, Fits, Yaris, and Focus. The unsellable SUVs end up being stripped down to be delivery trucks or are sold for scrap. This, of course, is not far fetched at all. All it would take is $10 per gallon gas, and people would simply stop driving vehicles that cost $300 to fill up. The europeans have had expensive gas for years, which explains the VW beetles, mini coopers, fiats, and renaults.

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