Why are so many people against hummers? I believe I have the right to drive anything I want even if it wastes.

Answer 1

you sound kinda like a selfish little child-king

it is irresponsible to drive those eye sores...there is more to life and this world than what a few want but rather what is best for the whole

you're driving your $80000 waste of everything put into it and meanwhile we're on the verge of an environmental collapse...grow some ethics

Answer 2

It takes all kinds of people to keep things going. If we all agreed that hummers are the best and we all are going to buy one and drive them. That would be great I guess. If you got the money go for it.

You will look so cool with a big Hummer and no gas one day. Did you know you have to change the tires every couple of years and over 200 bucks each? My tires cost 73 dollars installed. For you to drive 12 to 15 miles it cost you a gallon of gas at about $2.50 a gallon and I can drive my little truck or my car either one 28 miles on the same $2.50.

So you you work 15 miles from home cost you $5.00 per day just to go to work and back. If you work 5 day weeks that is $260.00 a year more then I pay. And if you have a hummer I am guessing you live out of town so it is 12 to 15 miles one way to get anything so 5 bucks per round trip again.

A better way to look at it is people over 30 drive about 12,000 miles a year. Divided by 15 miles is 800 gallons of gas for you. That is $2000.00 a year just in gas. With a smaller car your cost would be half that.

Plus for my GMC truck I pay less then $200 a month. What do you pay for the Hummer?

I guess to be as cool as you are it cost money so if you got the money then spend it.. Hell I would. Or would I? I might spend that extra money on my home that would make me money when I sell it. Your hummer will just be junk in 5 years. YOu lost money big time. .

That is not COOL that is just simply STUPID.

Answer 3

You do have the right to drive anything road legal Not anything you want, necessarily). If your hummers is legal, drive on.

Civilian hum-vees only look like the military ones. My son had to have a special license to drive a real one in the Marines. So that makes yours a "wannabe" - just another status symbol.

Don't worry tho, if you get stuck a Jeep will be happy to pull you out! : )

Answer 4

I agree that you have the right to drive whatever you want even if it wastes. But, a lot of people in hummers and big trucks are running me off the road and cutting me off (I'm assuming because you can't see me in my reasonably sized car). If you are not doing this to other drivers than go ahead and enjoy driving your enormous vehicle.

Answer 5

I am a HUmmer owner and I really do not care what other people think. I pay my own bills, I pay my own gas so who cares what they think? I really do not get why a lot of people make a fuss about someone owning a Hummer. People have to admit it - would you rather have a Hyundai if you can afford a Hummer? Plus I wish these "preachers" on enviroment seriously either take a bike, commute to work using public transportation, or at least drive a Hybrid to work. Other wise, it is what it is - they/re just a bunch of looney preachers who don't even know what they are talking about.

Answer 6

The issue is about large, high profile vehicles on urban roads. IMHO it's not about Hummers, Jimmies or Escalades. The issue is about extremely large vehicles distributed in the U.S. For me, you can go off wasting fuel at your own expense. Go ahead.

Here's my issue. The U.S. has detailed laws regarding "crash test" standards. The number of large, high profile vehicles in my area makes those standards a joke. Of course, forget about the "fleet fuel mileage" requirements b/c the "trucks" are exempt.

I drive a Mercedes classic - 1977 450SEL. I went to Starbucks at the corner and, returning home, I was rearended by a large, high profile pickup truck. A new Toyota Tundra to be exact. I was stopped at a pedestrian crosswalk with people in front of my silver star. The truck wacked off a rear corner. In the U.S. the '77 450SEL had a rear bumper that sits on 2 massive shock absorbers. The truck hit my car above the bumper that protrudes ONE FOOT. His insurance company is now restoring my '77 Mercedes for $6,500.

Does Raymond K. (above) look like my twin brother?

Answer 7

Do it if that is what u like. The people has started this carbon foot print thing. The CO2 that is produced is not bad it is the beginning of Mother nature air recycle. Plants take in CO2 and hold on to the C and give us back the O2 . The C part is recycled by nature to our fossil fuels . Where do u think our original fossil fuels came from . They were not there when the earth got through cooking do u think.

Answer 8

I don't understand the "social responsibility" answer. In the US, you buy your own gasoline. What you drive has nothing to do with anyone else. I think you're an idiot and if you blow your money on a big car and four times the gasoline that I buy, don't you dare come to me 40 years from now and say you don't have enough to retire on, but you have a right to be an idiot and you don't cost me anything by your being one.

Answer 9

Hummer epitomize the extravagance of large SUVs. They are V8 behemoths with poor gas mileage.

But you can drive whatever you want. That's what freedom is all about.

Honestly, I'm surprised that RVs aren't attacked more for their gas-guzzling capability. Or the wanton wastefullness of NASCAR.

Answer 10

The idea of 'having the right' is all well and good, but many, if not most people who shout this with a closed fist seem to forget that along with a right comes an equal responsibility - the responsibility to allow everyone else their rights, and the responsibility to respect those rights as you expect them to respect yours.