Pumping Chumps
Don’t look now, but truck and SUV sales are up again:
Trucks and sport utility vehicles will outsell cars for the first time since February, according to a December report by Edmunds.com, which tracks industry statistics.
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The surge in SUV and truck sales suggests that the issue of fuel efficiency has faded in the minds of many consumers.
And those girly hybrids? They’re sitting on dealers’ lots like wallflowers at a school dance:
Toyota has already slowed production of the industry’s flagship hybrid vehicle, the Prius, due to lack of interest and a growing inventory of the once best-selling model, Edmunds.com reported.
Are Americans really this shortsighted? Do they really think gas prices will stay below $2 a gallon? Sure, new Suburbans and F-150s might be a bargain this year. And thanks to Hank Paulson and the gang in Washington, financing might be shockingly easy to get. But a no-money-down loan and a couple thousand knocked off the sticker price is nothing compared to the costs of things like, you know, two foreign wars, massive indebtedness to inimical regimes in places like China and Venezuela, melting polar ice caps, and rising sea levels. Oh yeah, and let’s not forget bailouts for automakers, too. If we’re going to keep rewarding them for building inefficient vehicles, we shouldn’t complain when they fly to Washington rattling their tin cups.
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