Why in the world to these fucking things exist? Why do people buy them? Please help me to understand the irrationality of the human species. Wait, I think I’ve just come up for the equation that allows these to exist:

Obscene income + absence of eco-awareness + lack of concern for fellow drivers + advertising = hummer

A simple restatment might be: Income surplus + ignorance + manipulation = hummer 

That was easier than I thought. Anyone else care to contribute a different equation? This could be fun.

On a related note, Thomas Friedman writes in the New York Times that “In the wake of the Iraq war, the E.P.A. announced that the average fuel economy of America’s cars and trucks fell to its lowest level in 22 years, with the 2002 model year. That is a travesty. No wonder foreigners think we sent our U.S. Army Humvees to control Iraq, just so we could drive more G.M. Hummers over here. When our president insists that we can have it all – big cars, big oil, lower taxes, with no sacrifices or conservation – why shouldn’t the world believe that all we are about is protecting our right to binge?”