No Guzzle, No Glory (Hummer owners persevere)

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No Guzzle, No Glory
History Says Gas Spike Won't Smother SUV Love

By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 13, 2004; Page F01

It can't be easy owning a Hummer these days. If you're not being mocked in television ads, you're cut off by hostile drivers or harassed by environmentalists. Jatinder Sehmi, the owner of a junk-removal franchise in Prince George's County, had a hamburger thrown at his H2 recently.

"A friend of mine told me he had a car full of nuns give him the finger," chuckled Leo Karl, of Hummer by Karl in New Canaan, Conn.
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The one tangible sign of anxiety over gasoline usage appears to be the abuse being hurled at SUV owners, especially Hummer owners. The Web site FUH2.com, which encourages a center-finger salute to the vehicle, has so far posted 682 photos of such salutes. HonkatHummers.com sells bumper stickers with its own prescription. The radical environmental group Earth Liberation Front boasts of a half-dozen attacks on SUV dealerships last year, including one in West Covina, Calif., that did $2.5 million in damage.

"They cut you off -- that's huge; not yielding, lots of fingers," shrugged Jim Matthews, Hummer sales manager at Criswell Automotive in Gaithersburg. "It's people in little box cars that don't have a life -- tree huggers."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36215-2004Jun12.html



This tree hugger gives Hummer drivers the finger, ... the little one.


June 5 Anti-war March in LA images here:
http://ediablo.com/LAprotest6-5-04.html