The H3 and Hybrid SUVs: Helping or hating?
Environmentalists hate SUVs, and there are few vehicles that draw more green anger than the Hummer. While the new H3 has been downsized, one still has to ask, "What's the point?" Recently I skimmed a USA Today article that questioned the real functionality of the H3, but still noted that it makes quite a statement.
Is that what Americans should be proud of, making a statement? And what does that statement really say? I am materialistic, I am rich, I should be envied, or I am so cool because I bought a vehicle lacking any common sense in the modern world? Screw high gas prices, screw foreign oil dependency, screw terrorism, I don't have to worry about those things because I'm cool and rich.
Right on brother.
Many might extend this line of thinking to SUVs as well, but at least hybrid SUVs utilize the cutting edge of fuel efficient technology. Unfortunately, Americans simply cannot give up the 'big is better' belief. While the H3 does nothing to help balance this problem, hybrid vehicles, such as the Ford Escape hybrid, the Toyota Highlander hybrid, and the Lexus RX400h offer technological hope.
Hybrid SUVs make a statement that says 'I want to help'. The H3 screams, 'I don't care!'
Labels: Escape hybrid, Ford, Ford Escape hybrid, Foreign Oil Dependency, Highlander hybrid, Hybrid Vehicles, Lexus hybrid, toyota
posted by Dahcredyns at
1:49 PM
4 Comments:
Only in America can we be materialistic, tasteless, and politically incorrect. OK, perhaps not only just America enjoys these rights, but ONLY in America can we be proud of pretentiousness. Consumers buy Hummers because they CAN! Buying one of these vehicles predisposes the fact that gas prices are NOT a factor. $3.00+/gal is a small price to pay for capitalist ego. Let us have our Hummers, doomed Excursions, Suburbans, and an occasional Hybrid and let the commies worry about petrol futures! Only in America can I have my cake, eat it, and brush off the crumbs onto the filthy linoleum of our foreign counterparts (even if we are driving to economical doom).
Nice post. Isn't ignorance bliss?!
And we wonder why we're hated around the globe.
I'm gonna buy an H3 this weekend and am pumped about it. Do I care about gas - yes, do I care about the environment - yes, but I like my H3 as well. Call me what you will but I'd rather get in an accident driving an H3 than a Honda Civic Hybrid...one of us is coming out unscathed. Secondly, the Hybrid SUVs (such as Lexus) are significantly more than a H3 - $50k+...when an H3 comes in starting at $29k. I don't even have to get into the aesthetics of hybrids. So yes, I'm american, I'm a bastard with an ego, but understand I care. I guess just not enough to cut back on gas...
Perhaps we should all just drive H3's then? That we'll all be safer. Wouldn't it be awesome if everybody in the U.S. averaged about 15 mpg!!!!!
Who knows where we'd get the gas, but who cares!
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