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Tuesday, January 06, 2009SUVs are Number One Sellers Again Daily Press reports:
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.
"Despite all the public discussion of fuel efficiency, SUVs and trucks are the industry's biggest sellers right now as a remarkable number of buyers seem to be compelled by three factors: great deals, low gas prices and winter weather," said Michelle Krebs of AutoObserver.com, a division of Edmunds.com, in a prepared statement.
"It was this summer that customers were concerned about the gas mileage. It hasn't been a topic of conversation lately," said Dave Lawson, the general sales manager at Pomoco Chrysler Jeep Dodge in Newport News."
We in Western society better get over our attachment to comfort at the expense of everything else, because climate change is going to make that impossible--and that's ALREADY true, that's not even based on what WILL happen if we don't change our consumption habits now.
The way people can rationalise choices as needs rather than simple preferences (for comfort, status or fashion reasons) even when they KNOW that their choice is the worse one is unforgivable.
What we need to think of ... what EVERY person needs to think of ... is "What would happen if everyone did what I am doing? How would that affect the whole?"
The cult of the individual in the US (and in Western society in general, but US is especially guilty) has essentially eviscerated the Golden Rule and concepts of community and healthy societies.
