Thank you GM!

We may or may not be at peak oil, but we should buy ourselves some more time to come up with alternatives. We have wasted the last 30 years.

Democrats and Republicans be damned.

Sports cars, in the traditional sense – if were to consider Mercedes SL55′s, Ferrari’s et al as super cars get excellent gas mileage. MX5′s, S2000s, Solstices et al are “sports cars”. . I would even group Civic Si’s, WRX’s Scion TC’s and the like into that category. It’s really subkective since the line keeps getting redrawn as companies try to redifine the segments, like the word “coupe” is rarely ever used correctly. I definetly agree that cars like the Corvette and 911 may be seen as gas guzzlers, but consider the weight of these cars versus a Hummer, and while it certainly doesn’t make them gaz mizers, driven by sane individuals they would get decent mileage versus a soccer mom in an H2. Not to mention most sports cars are held to stricter mileage and emissions standards (this is where supercars get excluded, because they are exempt too) than SUV’s.

Many people complain that GM dispropotionately takes the blame for gas-guzzling SUVs when just about every manufactuer makes one. They do, but it’s understandable. GM catches all the shit simply because they make to most SUVs, the largest SUVs, and more than any other manufactuer their profitability as a whole is tied to SUVs and trucks.

And the correct answer is.. EXXON!
What does that tell you besides that you need to work for Exxon? That they’re robbing us.
Hey somebody do me a favor, my browser is working very slow so I will not bother with it. Someone try to figure out the supply and demand, and then figure out how much it costs without inflation or taxation. I read somewhere that they inflate it signifigantly, but I have no facts to prove that just someones word.

Completely ignoring that fact that Chavez and Venezuela impact the US’ oil pricing and supply as much if not more than the middle east.

There’s always a spin… but per J-Ro’s comment, I don’t believe that $1.18/gallon is coming back.

The only negative impact I see out of the lowering of pricing will be the tree huggers getting back to defending what is a frozen wasteland (no bunny rabbits bounding about or elk grazing as shown on CNN) of ANWR.

If the US truly wants to get away from a dependence upon foreign oil, we’ll incent through tax credits not just the purchase of hybrid vehicles but the investment in research into more efficient powerplants for vehicles and also for the expansion of our own domestic and near-domestic (off the coast of Florida) oil exploration and oil refining capacity.

The momentum of higher gas prices should have resulted in increased development of ethanol and diesel powerplants for larger passenger vehicles and more efficient gasoline vehicles with turbos for the smaller commuters. I’m never going to be convinced on hybrids but there is a better way and hopefully this spike made the consumer demand that OEM’s develop other alternatives.

I’ll be interested to see if the left says that the dropping gas prices were a result of “the war for oil’s success” or whether they admit that it’s a good thing for the consumer.

We’re still well below an inflation adjusted gallon of gas from the Ford / Carter years, however.

of course, I sure rove is behind it all :shakinghead:

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