Can the driving of Hummers be justified?
By Serendipity •
Well, can they?
They're among the most fuel inefficient vehicles on the roads if not the most fuel inefficient:
http://www.data360.org/graph_group.aspx?Graph_Group_Id=363
And they also emit the most greenhouse gas emissions.
What possible justification can there be for driving such a vehicle in this day and age of $100 a barrel oil and even wars and people's lives lost over increasingly scarce oil resources and fast depleting reserves?
Just wanting to start a debate as there are lots of them on the roads over here.
*lights blue touchpaper and stands well clear*
I'm really surprised he's not selling it before he leaves Qatar. Fuel being expensive everywhere else will limit potential buyers.
thats funny..... Will remember to look for the boys leaning over the bonnet in future....
Ah Dweller, so its already on the market.... I wanted to buy it from him... but it was a little out of my price range.... I buy cars to suit my dogs space needs, and the H2 would be perfect....
you would be very wrong to assume that about people buying sports cars... it all depends on the sports car they are purchasing...
if a man works on his car to be come fast... he has a tool...
if a man purchase a car to be come fast... he is a tool...
just an old saying we used to use around the shop
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It's already been advertised in a French newspaper as being available "in Tunisia" in the new year.
Who in Tunisia would buy it I don't know.
Meh, they don't impress me. I want my little blue lamborghini with the orange interior, That's my dream car. :)
As for ecological affects. Small sized SUVs or pickups are more efficient and just as good (if not better) for driving here.
"You don't have to like me for who I am but we'll see what you're made of by what you make of me." Ani Difranco
I have to hang my head in shame and admit.... i love Hummers.... it is the ultimate 'shagmobile'.....:-)
IMHO, and I say that again... IMHO, men that drive sports cars are actually trying to make up for something they lack in other departments... where as a Hummer... well... its probably the same reason, but I do 4 x 4's before I do a sports car....;-)
Henners, its a personal choice as to what people drive.... personally I feel safer in a large 4 x 4 than on in a sedan... and with the way people drive here, I am sure you can understand why....
BTW... Dweller.... he's going to be selling it in the new year... curious to see what he gets next....
I don't think there's much justification for many of the big 4WD's we see around town (badly driven or otherwise). A huge percentage of locals and expats have at least one gas guzzling 4wd and how many actually use the car to go off-road every weekend / tow a boat / use the car for the purpose it was designed? Not that many I'll bet.
I'm not encouraging 4wd owners to rush down to the Inland Sea and start tearing up the desert btw - it's a total disaster down there now because of too many people leaving their filthy garbage behind (along with all their broken limbs - the weekend accident rate is unbelievable). The one area of natural beauty that Qatar is now totally destroyed. Will these people ever learn?
At full throttle it will empty its fuel tank in 20 mins.....
Hows that for MPG !!
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i think that hummers are the epitome of too much money and not enough taste.... but many people like to drive a rocket launcher to do their shopping at megamart........
so i must be wrong ;)
i think its obvious that its just a status symbol... kind of like buying a Ferrari... it has no gas or ecological benifits... yet they are bought by people who dont even have the balls to put them over 140 clicks... more less care about how much gas there using...
same with the bugati veryon... that car does 247 miles an hour on the get go and has to be run on 97 octane at a minimum and gets even worse gas millage... not to mention that the people who buy them wont have the balls to open them up because its just a symbol...
if i had the money i would buy something that make since... and is just as fast... wrx Subaru impreza STI because there a turbo charged boxter 4cylinder and at a stage 4 setup can give a ferrari a run for its money and with a swap of tires can out run a hummer off road... and its only 50 thousand and less... so screw you Ferrari lambo and Bugatti
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just hanging out and watching dvd's with helen keller... kind of a quite night.
onli 4 display look scary but not as gud & not as solid as land cruiser. saw 2 landcruiser & 1 hummer accident recently. hummer is totally smashed back & front.
A tank!
The Hummer collapses on impact
I know which vehicle i'd rather be in when one of these crazy drivers decides to ram into me!!
I just went to the website www.fueleconomy.gov and made a comparison of the popular SUVs in Doha -
Hummer H3
EPA Mileage 15
Annual Tonnes of CO2 emitted 12.2
Toyota Landcruiser
EPA Mileage 13
Annual Tonnes of CO2 emitted 14.1
Nissan Armarda
EPA Mileage 14
Annual Tonnes of CO2 emitted 13.1
So Hummer is more efficient than the other popular SUVs in Doha
Or
What about the Gallardo ?
EPA Mileage 13
Annual Tonnes of CO2 enitted 14.1
And finally........
Toyota Prius
EPA mileage 46 !!!
Annual Tonnes of CO2 emitted 4 !!!!!
Seen many of these on the roads of Doha ?
Arguements are easy to make on judging a book by it's cover, but a little research and any arguement can be twisted with a few selective statistics.
And yes, I drive a Hummer H3. My wife chose it for it's looks and ruggedness, same reasons she chose me !!!!! :-)
ex son-in-law drives one in Qatar. Don't know why as there is only him since the grand-daughter decided to stay in the UK with her mum.
I'd refrain from the last part..showing the bird because it can land you in jail here faster than you can shoot the bird...
They are not even that comfy to travel in, as my spies have told me !
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Normally I don't condone this sort of behaviour but I'll make an exception in this case since I agree with Serendipity...
Check out : FUH2
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What is the point of having such a big car and no honeys to drive around, except a bunch of weird guys.
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Egomania goes with the territory of decoding your own genome.
this is quite a controversial topic. In my opinion I think that Hummers are a waste of steel.
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Egomania goes with the territory of decoding your own genome.
If we are talking about status symbols and SPS (Small penis syndrome) then I agree. But if it's pollution and the waste of a scarce resource then I'd have to say that cars are not the issue, it's power plants that give us all the power needed for the A/C systems that have to run 24/7 for most of the year because houses and building are not designed with an insulating system that saves energy, I live in a brand new bungalow on alwaab and if I turn off my AC unit for 5 minutes the room temperature goes up fast and exceeds the outside temperature.
And don't even get me started on water waste....
Gas is cheap here....
So whats your point???
You can't teach experience...
:)
A cooking school in Doha would be really groovy....I would be in on that!!
There are like no cooking course available in Doha :( Unless anyone knows of any??
'Our freedom is but a light that breaks through from another world'
good weather, great friends, and the most excellent food you could imagine...the family outdid themselves cooking...She needs to start a cooking school...
Yeah it's crazy at the moment, but I love what I do :)
Oh a BBQ...I miss BBQ's...haven't been to one since arriving in Doha. Perfect weather for it now.
'Our freedom is but a light that breaks through from another world'
on here..
70 hour week??ouch..
I just stepped in after a lovely dinner party and am now wide awake after a 70 hour week at work.
How are you?
'Our freedom is but a light that breaks through from another world'
how are you???
Oh let them have their fun in hummers. After all (as I’ve mentioned before) they have to make up for their small .......what better way to make men feel like they have some power, if not in the bedroom :p
'Our freedom is but a light that breaks through from another world'
is he FROM Qatar???
Since the car is an American design we must ask the spider man for his advisory and protest scheme.
I wonder How he feels about the environment, water and his people in Qatar.
The Red Pope of Qatar Living
Egomania goes with the territory of decoding your own genome.
Land Cruisers, gas guzzling vehicles, the list is long
bought the hummer coz it's been my dream machine for a while now and besides i cant afford it back home at it costs 4X more there , furthermore fuel is double the price of what it is here. so whilst i am here will make the most of it.............:O)
I do have to agree with what you are saying...but seems driving a status symbol means a lot more than caring about other issues..you see them everywhere...not only here but in other countries also...sadly enough