Thanks oil execs! Guzzler sales slammed by high gas prices
Hummer sales down almost 30 percentUpdated at 12:59
While all automakers took a big hit in sales in March - with many seeing double digit declines - gas-guzzling vehicles, such as the Ford F-Series, the Ford Mustang and GM's Hummer, took serious sale's hits. Overall, all light trucks saw much bigger sale's declines than cars.
On the other hand, Toyota's March hybrid sales were up 19 percent compared to last year, led by the Toyota Prius and the Camry hybrid. In total, Toyota sold 31,552 hybrid vehicles in March.
Perhaps, instead of grilling oil executives about the high price of gasoline, Congress should be thanking oil execs. for doing their dirty work. Finally, whether they like or not, Americans are being forced to act more responsibly regarding their fuel consumption.
Labels: Foreign Oil Dependency
posted by Dahcredyns at
12:05 PM
6 Comments:
you're an a-hole, dahcredyns. people are suffering because of high gas prices and you think its funny - how sad.
thanks for the compliment.
i'm sorry, but i don't feel too sorry for people that didn't see this coming after 9/11, after Iraq, after Katrina.
Christ, after 9/11, Bin Laden basically said the act was rooted in America's foreign oil dependency, and that america's achille's heal was foreign oil dependency.
the writing has been on the wall for years now.
we need to get off foreign oil as fast as possible, otherwise the longer we wait, the more painful it will eventually be.
@ Anti-Dahc.
You're an IDIOT. Tough shit that people are suffering. They should have used their brains A LONG TIME AGO to figure out how stupid they were to waste such precious resources.
Life's a bitch. Pucker up and take it. Too bad you can't freeload off of other people anymore.
You want to see suffering? Go over to Iraq and see the suffering your lifestyle has caused...boohoo...people here are suffering.
Stop your dumbass whining Anti-dahc. No one here who has any common sense and half a brain is going to shed a tear for idiots who bought Hummers, big SUV's and 8 cylinder "penis" cars.
"penis" cars - I still haven't stopped laughing!!!
Hi!
Actually, if people have been paying attention, they should be very glad that gasoline prices are so very, very low.
We here in the US pay about the least of anyone for gasoline, since the gov't subsidizes more than 75% of the cost.
Next year the prices will be higher, in 2 years they'll be higher than that, and in 5 years it will be MUCH higher.
So, lets' celebrate the low gasoline prices while they're still low.
cliff
GRB
Supply and demand folks. Market determines price. Oil profits are high because the US government doesn't tax fuel enough to reclaim the taxpayers investments. Basically, your income tax is funding the defense of the oil industry, who in turn pockets the profits from what you have already paid to protect.
Good thing there's not too much corporate control of our government ;)
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