I saw a huge line of identical cars and SUVs at a traffic light and for a few moments I was able to feel intuitively how wasteful cars are, and not just something I knew intellectually. I've never had that sort of visceral gut feeling before, it was bizarre.
Were you not old enough for the monster 2003-2005 era Hummer H2s on the road? Maybe it was just the town I was living in at the time, but those things were fucking massive and wasteful and they were everywhere.
Oh yeah, the real world mileage for H2s was like 10-12 mpg, it wasn't even a joke lol. For comparsion a modern Corolla is like 35 mpg. They were 6.5 feet tall and 17 feet long, just under 7 feet wide (most lanes are 9 feet wide, so when they rolled through you felt squeezed off the road).
They were absolutely the symbol of American decadence and wastefulness and such a perfect artifact for that era. The only thing that could kill them was the fact that no one could afford it after 2007 and GM just about collapsed.
I saw a huge line of identical cars and SUVs at a traffic light and for a few moments I was able to feel intuitively how wasteful cars are, and not just something I knew intellectually. I've never had that sort of visceral gut feeling before, it was bizarre.
Were you not old enough for the monster 2003-2005 era Hummer H2s on the road? Maybe it was just the town I was living in at the time, but those things were fucking massive and wasteful and they were everywhere.
I was 5 in 2003, the only artifact of the giant hummers I have in memory is a "12 gallons to the mile" joke in an episode of Danny Phantom
Oh yeah, the real world mileage for H2s was like 10-12 mpg, it wasn't even a joke lol. For comparsion a modern Corolla is like 35 mpg. They were 6.5 feet tall and 17 feet long, just under 7 feet wide (most lanes are 9 feet wide, so when they rolled through you felt squeezed off the road).
They were absolutely the symbol of American decadence and wastefulness and such a perfect artifact for that era. The only thing that could kill them was the fact that no one could afford it after 2007 and GM just about collapsed.