Buy Fergie's Hummer to save the earth

To be truly faithful to her mission she should not sell it but take it to be crushed, then buy 10 more and have them crushed. Simply selling it to someone else who will burn up fossil fuel with it does little but make a nice headline that'll be forgotten two days later.

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Sep 9 2007, 01:11 PM) [snapback]509634[/snapback]</div>

That's what I was thinking.

It's still on the road. Someone else is driving it. What's the point? That she donates the money? Crush it and donate the value. Buy them up and take them off the road. (Of course, that won't stop GM from making more. And if they become "limited" the value just goes up.)

 

OTOH if she doesn't sell it the person that wants one just goes and buys another one from someone else. Maybe he just goes out and buys a new one which puts more money into GM's pocket which means that GM can make even more and the buyer still goes about his/her merry way polluting and wasting resources. Simply crushing is simply wasteful and recylcing is also a waste of natural resources in this case because you never get back the value of the materials put into the product. She should sell it and donate the money to a good cause.

Wildkow

p.s. Hmmmm, I'd like to see her give that Big-Boy a wax job and a good rub down for a lasting shine!

 

Crushing it then recycling the materials would be awesome. Cast it in bronze and put it on display next to a dinosaur skeleton. I would pay $1000 toward that cause. The PR value alone would be priceless.

 

Why did she buy a Hummer in the first place? Regardless, once she's gotten rid of it, if she wants to come live with me I'll buy her a Xebra and pimp it out for her as fancy as she likes. You can't find a better ride today. (Until the Tesla Roadster comes out, of course.)

 

Evan, you chickened out by not naming the thread
"Fergie to sell hummer!"
She could earn enough money in 1 day to buy 100 Prii!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Sep 9 2007, 02:19 PM) [snapback]509639[/snapback]</div>

Buying them up and crushing them is probably the worst thing you can do. As you point out, GM will just make more. It's like buying some animal to rescue it from a nasty petstore. You saved one, but the store pockets the profits, and gets another animal to abuse and neglect in the store window.

 

Who the F*ck is Fergie? Not the Duchess of York nor the Manager of Man U.

Crush the bloody thing and get it off the road.

 

Yes, quite pimped out indeed but who would want to buy a car that can't even fit in the parking space in which it's displayed?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Darwood @ Sep 10 2007, 12:50 PM) [snapback]510205[/snapback]</div>

:lol: !!LOLOLOL!! :lol:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Darwood @ Sep 10 2007, 12:50 PM) [snapback]510205[/snapback]</div>

Is "hummer" a euphemism for sex? This lady is hot, but I doubt she could earn two million dollars in one day even at the highest-class cat house in Nevada.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Sep 9 2007, 11:11 AM) [snapback]509634[/snapback]</div>

How is it different than buying and selling carbon credits? OTOH I'm so used to seeing celebrity sales on fleaBay that I thought it was a different "Fergie". Last time I looked someone is willing to pay $16000 for Colbert's cast.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Sep 9 2007, 11:11 AM) [snapback]509634[/snapback]</div>

I've given this some thought. I think that once bought, the damage is done, and that selling it is the best choice.

If she has it crushed, the potential buyer will buy one off the lot, GM gets the profit and the incentive to continue building them, the same number of Hummers is on the road, and there's a little more crap in the landfill.

If she keeps it and just does not drive it, it's the same as above, except the landfill does not get it until it rusts.

At least by selling it, GM loses one new sale, because the buyer of Fergie's presumably does not buy a new one.

It reminds me of an incident many years ago. I lived in rural ND, and there was a local 10 K fun run. As a joke, knowing that I am a militant non-smoker, they gave me a pack of cigarettes as a "prize" for my age group. Even though I knew it was a joke, I hate tobacco so much I smashed up all the cigarettes. I should have given the pack back. Nobody smoked fewer cigarettes on account of my act, but if I had returned them, someone would have bought one less new pack.

I made the wrong decision. Fergie made the right decision. Except that she never should have bought it in the first place.

OTOH, someone might make the argument that this auction is good publicity for Hummer and may incite someone to buy one who wouldn't otherwise. But I kind of doubt it.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tripp @ Sep 11 2007, 05:40 AM) [snapback]510217[/snapback]</div>

She is the front woman of Black Eye Peas recently gone solo.