guess gas is getting "too cheap" again: GM's light truck sales were up 38% per selling day

See http://www.gm.com/company/investor_informa...prod/index.html and for details see
http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/...6Deliveries.xls.

It's a been shocking/discouraging to see that as usual, it seems like American consumers care little about conservation and pollution now the gas prices have gotten cheaper... Although many of these are down in sales YTD, many are up A LOT per selling day last month compared to the same period last year:
Escalade +145.7%
Escalade ESV +249.5%
Escalade EXT +188.9%
Surburban +70%
Tahoe +99.6%
Yukon +141.6%
Yukon XL +126.3%
Hummer H2 +31.6%

Sales of more miserly cars per selling day were down like:
Aveo -31.1%
Cobalt -43%
Vibe -17%

You can see Toyota's sales for comparison at http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2006/11/01/027342.html.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cwerdna @ Nov 2 2006, 03:50 PM) [snapback]342419[/snapback]</div>

We have to consider that October 2005 was a terrible month for GM.
Let's take a look comparing 2006 vs 2004...

Code:

              2004    2005    2006  2006/2004
days            27      26      25
Escalade      2,947   1,504   3,553  +30.2%
Escalade ESV  1,317     513   1,724  +41.4%
Escalade EXT    752     297     825  +18.5%
Surburban     8,928   4,237   6,938  -16.1%
Tahoe        12,966   6,347  12,181   +1.5%
Yukon         5,928   2,612   6,068  +10.6%
Yukon XL      5,199   1,950   4,243  -11.9%
Hummer H2     2,529   1,158   1,465  -37.4%

total GM    210,996 142,957 188,846   -3.3%

Ken@Japan