Back in high school I was asked by a fellow student doing a survey for some sort of class: "What is your dream car?" I replied: a Humvee. Humvees ruled. They were the new jeep of the U.S. military. They kicked a lot of Brotherhood of Nod ass in Command & Conquer. They could have a mountable machine gun in the back. Of course, that was all before I could drive a car and had to actually pay for gas. Nowadays I probably wouldn't settle for anything that gets less than 30 miles per gallon in the city.
However, concerns about mileage hasn't kept people from buying the civilian Humvee, the Hummer H2. With a mileage of about 9 to 14 MPG, it would cost an H2 driver -- paying for gas at a cost of $2 per gallon -- $17.40 to drive from Portland to Eugene. It would cost a mere $5.26 to drive the same distance with my '98 Corolla (aka the Mormon Mobile).
I've seen people all over the Northwest driving the H2. People are driving it in Seattle rush hour traffic. People in the Hawthorne district in Portland drive H2s. Even the crazy hippie heaven of Eugene is home to some H2s. Worst of all are the grotesque monsters of extravagance, the H2 limo.
I'm for the rights of people to choose whatever they want to drive. But I still think that driving a car that consumes gas inefficiently and is liable to kill the driver of any smaller car it hits at a high speed is pretty irresponsible.
Many, many others feel the same way I do. Fuck you H2.
posted by Sho | 10:50 AM |
