No Guzzle, No Glory (Hummer owners persevere)

[joefree1]

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


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[bahrbearian]

1. I had be giving hummer drivers the middle finger for years now its

[joefree1]

2. Pinkie finger salute

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[frylock]

3. "It's people in little (expletive) box cars that don't have a life..

-- tree huggers. Sorry about your penis, Jim.

[joefree1]

6. Jim sounds like the former school Bully

... that now everyone laughs at. But then that's probably why a lot of former school bullys are now freepers.

[Southsideirish]

4. Grossest thing ever? A 30 ft long Hummer limo. There is at least

one if not more tooling around Chicago this summer - yikes is it soooo stupid looking!!!

[TheFarseer]

5. These people just play it off like

If they don't like me driving a Hummer, that's their problem. No, it's everyone's problem. Myself, I am sort of mean to SUV owners - not letting them in on the freeway and stuff like that.

[enki23]

7. the problem with conspicuous consumption, assholes

is that it's... well... conspicuous. i'll have to do my part to make life just a little more annoying for hummer drivers.

what are they doing on freeways anyway? surely these grand behemoths don't need anything as plebeian as "roads."

[TommyO]

8. Methinks some of us tree huggers...

need to either visit Criswell Hummer, or at least contact Jim Matthews and let him know that he's one of the people responsible for the situation in the Middle East right now.

From the Crisswell HUMMER website:

The managers at Criswell HUMMER are some of the best in the business. Should you have any questions or concerns, please contact the manager that can best answer your questions below.

Jim Matthews, HUMMER Sales Manager
301-590-8432

Mark Harne, Service Manager
301-212-4460

Scott Blatchley, Director Of Personnel
301-590-8420

Kevin Szot, General Sales Manager
301-590-8430

Neil Kopit, Marketing Manager
301-948-0880

[Physicist]

9. will do

I will ask them to explain why their dealers say that tree huggers don't have a life.

signed, a Roman Catholic tree hugger.

[phantom power]

10. One thing I like to do

is, when I'm discussing cars with people, just bring up gas mileage: "so, what kind of mileage does that thing get?" If it's not very good (which it hardly ever is), I make sure to give off a subtle vibe that I'm not impressed with their car.

Works at the dealership, and with individual people. It's kind of fun, since it turns the usual "horsepower-envy" on it's head. Instead of getting to feel impressed that they own/sell a big car with lots of engine, I get them to feel vaguely inferior that they own/sell a car that gets such crappy gas mileage.

And in the large picture, it just helps to remind people that there's such a thing as mileage, and that it still matters. Of course, with fuel prices the way they are, it's on people's minds more anyway.

[Bdog]

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