Wednesday, May 21, 2008

For Sale, The Biggest Gas Guzzling Car On The Market

Okay, so you loved it when you bought your little ole SUV a couple of years ago.
Hey, it’s perfect for off road and if need be, you can turn it into a suburban tank and run over the bad guys who invaded your neighborhood.
It holds about 42 gallons and at almost $4 dollars a gallon you’re paying $168 dollars each fill up. But wait a minute, you’re getting at least 18 miles to the Gallon on the highway so that means you’re going over 756 miles between fill ups. Another thing, that SUV is ready to save you and your loved ones in case of an emergency. Say, a meteor is coming toward the East Coast Line, you need to get the family up into higher ground, but the roads are clogged with others trying to save their lives. You can take your Suburban Tank off road and make your own roadway to safety.
So, if you’re willing to pay $168 dollars a fill up, keep your Suburban Tank but if you are tearing your hair out and wish that someone could take your hunk of expensive metal away, guess what? You’re not alone. More and more two car families are leaving the Suburban Tank in the garage and driving around the cheaper second car. People are running to the dealerships and trying to unload their SUV’s but to no avail. You bought it, you own it.
What can you do with a car that is costing you more to operate than your monthly payments for it?
It’s way too big to turn into a paper weight.
If you’re lucky, you’ll get it smashed up in an accident, but those things are so rugged, it’ll just be a small dent. Those things are meant to survive anything other than a direct nuclear blast.
In other words, if you own an SUV and are getting killed at the pump, you have two choices, first, smile while you spend all that money. Secondly, put it to the side and leave it there, hopefully you might be able to sell it to a junkyard dealer by the pound, you’ll still take a loss but at least it’s something coming in.
So, what do you do with the money after you sell the Suburban Tank to a junkyard dealer by the pound?
You look into the Hybrid.
Honda has just announced that they are going to make 200,000 new hybrids for next year, expecting to sell 100,000 or half of them in the United States.
Meanwhile, Nissan is planning to bring Electric Cars into the U.S. for the 2010 market. Not to be out done, GM is also planning to bring out electric cars in 2010. Does anyone remember the successful GM Electric cars of the 1990’s? Does the documentary, ‘WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?” ring a bell? GM had a good car who’s customers loved, then recalled them all took them out to the desert and destroyed them.
What are American’s looking for in a car?
Basically the average American needs a car that goes around thirty miles distance a day. GM’s Electric Car was supposed to get 80 miles between charges.
Sometimes you’ve got to wonder, does GM really want to make money or is just around for the fun of it?
Now, it’s playing catch up, again.
So, does anyone want to buy a 2008 Suburban, low mileage, 42 Gallon capacity, asking for anything.
Remember, they may not tell you when the next meteor is going to hit.

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