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JimH
 
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Default Peak Oil - counterargument


"RCE" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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Look around you, Jimmy. There is absolutely, positively no way in hell
that the enormous increase in truck ownership over the past 30 years is
due to actual need.

-Most don't even have a hitch on them. They tow nothing.

-There've been surveys indicating that the average SUV owner carries 1-2
passengers most of the time, and never more than 4.

-We have not seen a 10-fold increase in the number of construction
workers and trades people. Furthermore, I have housing developments in
progress near me. I see more of the workers arriving in cars, not trucks.
You don't need a truck to haul 2 hammers, a tool belt, and a cordless
drill. They're smart enough to figure this out, and apparently, they see
no need to drive a pickup because someone else does. So much for
"construction sites", as you mentioned. Too bad soccer moms can't figure
this out.

You keep coming back to people who actually need them. Do you know what
the typical female truck buyer gives as a reason?


I do. .... (this is really getting comical) ... maybe not "typical" ....
but..

Mrs.E used to have a Lincoln Navigator. She liked it because it had some
room for her stuff, grandkids and the fact that she felt "safe" in such a
large vehicle.

This spring she traded it in and got one of those new Lincoln pickup
trucks (I forget what you call them). It looks just like a Navigator from
the front, but with a pickup bed in the back. (It's basically a dolled up
Ford F-150)

She loves this now, because it still seats 5 people, but she can easily
haul around her horse saddles, bales of hay, shopping conquests, boat
stuff, flowers, pots, trees and other bulky, large items that she used to
have to wait for me to pick up for her.

RCE




But she is a WOMAN and according to Doug WOMEN do not need trucks, only MEN
do. She is nothing more than a soccer MOM riding around in a MAN's truck.
Doug has evidence to prove it.

Now kindly tell Mrs. E. that Doug Kanter would like her to sell her truck
as, being a woman, she obviously does she *need* one. ;-)