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Truck and SUV sales rising as gas prices drop
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After nearly a year of flagging sales, low gas prices and fat incentives are reigniting America’s taste for big vehicles.
Trucks and SUVs will outsell cars in December, according to researchers at the automotive Website Edmunds.com, something that hasn’t happened since February.
Meanwhile the forecast finds that sales of hybrid vehicles are expected to be way down.
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What is surprising about this? Americans are the dumbest, most self centered f*cks on the planet who will happily massacre millions while simultaneously voting for the worst possible candidate in history, twice. Nuclear armed exceptionalism, narcissism, and avarice. Pray this nation I am trapped in either implodes completely or gets hit by a meteor or something because short of catastrophe, the U.S. will never change course until it drives everyone off a cliff.
Amen! But would the Chinese be any better? We are bound to find out…
Americans prefer big, comfortable, safe vehicles. I’d like to see those bigger vehicles become more fuel-efficient but CAFE standards will ultimately do what free choice isn’t doing … force Americans to buy more fuel efficient vehicles by eliminating some of their choices. And when did Americans ever “massacre millions”? That’s Europe’s schtick.
I didn’t know Stalin and Mao were European… I think there’s not many continents left that have no “million killed” in their history. Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Amin… I don’t have the name of an Aztec leader but they qualify as well. Now that there’s more than a million Iraqi killed since 2003 the USA has joined this illustrious club – or should we count the native americans as well? In that case there’s also the Maori for Australia. Perhaps we should all emigrate to Belgium.
John,
What did the poor Belgians ever do to us for you to threaten them like that?
Maybe the original point of this post was about condemning Americans for their short-sightedness in vehicle choice. A reply added their institutional greed, their electoral blindness (absolutely true), but then, somehow, the condemnation leapt to mass slaughter of millions. So, a few clarifications of the record, as I (and Wikipedia) see it. First, Stalin’s government was most definitely situated in Europe (Moscow is west of the Urals), making him (and the slaughter he invoked) European. Second, it would appear that at least 90 % of the native Americans died of disease. Third, while the number of Iraqis killed by Americans (in a useless war)is most definitely in the tens of thousands, that number is utterly dwarfed by those killed internally by Saddam, or at his direction in a war with Iran. America may have killed over a million Germans and Japanese in WWII, but it seems that then, everybody was busy ‘doin it’. So, Americans have many faults, but none like the Belgians, who killed between 5 and 8 million in the Congo, and started conflicts that have killed that many again, in that Paradise. America, si, Belgium, no.