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Originally Posted by 636blurr
Actually more, when gas was under 1.50 a gallon and rose to over 1.60 people were all up in arms, went over 2.00 and not only did people use just as much fuel, but consumption rose as did the sales of SUVs not untell the recent 4.00 hit have people finally slowed buying SUVs but only in some area's, I believe its just as mall fad, and the sheep public will go back to there old ways again soon.
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What's funny here is that the only reason SUVs even exist is government rules trying to force people to be more gas efficient against their will. The CAFE standards originally only covered cars, not trucks, because back then hardly anybody drove trucks as family cars; trucks were for work. So the car companies were forced to make smaller more efficient cars, and the buying public didn't want to buy them. Since the car companies weren't allowed to respond to consumer demand by just making the big cars people wanted, they stepped into the loophole and just made passenger car versions of their trucks that were exempt from CAFE, and
voila the SUV was born. Good thing the government was looking out for all of us. Sure solved *that* problem.
People should be allowed to buy what they want to buy, and use what they want to use, and the market will adjust, and people will adjust, and so on.
PhilB