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As Dane_in-LA noted both of these markets are dominated by form over function. There are better vehicles and weapons available for the intended uses. Cheaper too.
Hummers are a dinosaur that was looking for extinction. As oil peaked out in the USA in 71 and has peaked out world wide in the 2005-2009 range, oil will only go up. The ANWR even if it had the reserves they think it may would only yield 6 months of the needs of the USA and then oil produced in the USA does not go to the USA it goes on the open market as all oil does. Oil is going to cost more and more. The only thing we can control is demand. This is what the neocons are lying to the low information voters who watch Fox. Numbers do not lie. There has been no significant finds of large oil fields for over 10 years. In the 50s we in the USA were finding 10 barrels of oil to every one pumped out of the ground, now its reversed. This is called terminal decline. When we have to drill in 3 mile deep water there is a reason, we have to go after the deeper and harder to get oil because the easy stuff has been exploited. We are at the bottom half of the tube of tooth paste. It is harder to get and takes more effort to get it. We use more oil to get a barrel of this than before when it was the easy oil we were going after. The oil usage spike of China and India and emerging markets is only putting more pressure on the resource. Now take the Middle East where most countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran will not allow outside geologists to estimate the reserves and the self estimation has never went down with all the millions of barrels of oil that has been produced. Now with the idiot republicans trying to stop high speed rail they are going to make us more dependent on oil. If you can move people from NY to LA in 14 hours or less with say 5 stops at a lower cost and much less use of fuel, and as China and Japan and other nations develop this, why would anyone want to stop such a project? No they want to give tax breaks to the most wealthy of the nation so they can not just have 90% of the wealth but 95 or even 100% of it. When taxes for corporations have so many loop holes that there is a cayman building that has 14,000 us business in a building that should hold maybe 4 at best and then very small business only to get out of paying tax. And we have the lowest tax rate in this nation since the 50s. And these neocons want to destroy unions?
Nice rant.
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