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ABG: U.S. car buyers want large vehicles, SUVs again thanks to "stabilizing gas prices"

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  1. cwerdna

    cwerdna Senior Member

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    U.S. car buyers want large vehicles, SUVs again thanks to "stabilizing gas prices" — Autoblog Green


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    #1 cwerdna, Aug 13, 2010
  2. dogfriend

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    Gas is too cheap @ $3. Don't worry, it will go up again eventually and all those people buying new SUVs will wonder "Why didn't I see this coming?"
     
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    Doh! :doh:
     
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    that was W's best policy, $4. gas!:D
     
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    Who, in 2004, ever thought those words would be put together in that order?
     
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    Yeah. I remember a time when I was complaining the super unleaded was up to almost $2/gallon. At the time, both my cars required premium.
     
    #6 cwerdna, Aug 13, 2010
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    I am prepared to pay $6 a gallon for premium for my other car. I am also prepared to laugh my nice person off at dumb nice person SUV drivers paying for their stupidity at the gas pump.
     
    #7 a_gray_prius, Aug 15, 2010
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    You have not been listening to Faux news. It is Obama's fault for closing refineries and not nuking Iran (or something.)
     
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    Or...some people just never learn.
     
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    Yeah, didn't you know that when Obama took office gas was a nickel a gallon and now look where it is? All his fault!
     
    #11 Skoorbmax, Mar 26, 2012
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    Its kind of strange as we move the goal posts:D
    A flat gas tax that would rise over the years would make purchase more likely to react correctly to the market. The US failed to pass one when gas was cheap, I have no hope of them passing one now that it is expensive again.

    I'm suprised that some aren't telling the president to give iran the bomb in exchange for increasing oil production. If we do that, the boycott will go away, and gas will go back to less than $3/gallon:D Please note the sarcasm.
     
    #12 austingreen, Mar 26, 2012
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