The Oil Drum

107 comments on a linear extrapolation of oil consumption by demand growth, production growth, and demand elasticity

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Agric on January 22, 2006 - 3:25pm

But, Dred, what about the bands of eco-terrorists who will roam the suburbs burning the filthy SUVs?

The SUVs must go, and before too long, one way or another. After all, they (and their associated mentality) are the real reason the 'american way of life' is in peril.

If you have an SUV sell it now, before it becomes worthless.

Business as usual will soon not be an option, the planet has said so and is not going to negotiate.

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ericy on January 22, 2006 - 7:44pm

Eco-terrorists will not be needed. The people who are stuck owning the things will find them to be such albatrosses that they will torch them themselves and try to collect the insurance. In the end eco-terrorists would get the blame, I suppose.

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Subkommander Dred on January 23, 2006 - 9:05am

Bands of Eco terrorists aside (does that include Weyerhauser and Halliburton, by the way) I sold my ridiculously huge pickup truck earlier this year and now use a BMW Dakar (really sweet ride) motorcycle. At 70 MPG, it's much better on gas than the Dodge Ram I had. Fortunately, I live in a place where I can walk to work pretty easily, take the bus to get most of where I need to go when inclement weather strikes, borrow my roomates totally beat Toyota for grocery shopping or other such tasks, and last but not least take a cab if all other options are not available. So I try to walk the talk that I see many folks discuss on this board and elswhere. As far as the SUV madness that this country is currently engaged in (consumer madness, credit madness, war madness,ect) I think things are going to have to get pretty bad for individuals to give up their SUV's. I had read somewhere (was it on this board?) that some folks, not being able to make ends meet driving such gas guzzling hogs, stuck with large payments and the prospect of losing a significant amount of cash on an upside down trade on something more fuel efficient have taken to torching their own vehicles so as to collect on the insurance. These are strictly anecdotal, and I know of no one personally who has done so, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if this is so.