Angry Physicist

SUV Makers Feel the Heat of Higher Oil Prices

"bbzz24 you're an idiot. How do your landscapers get your yard done? How do your deliveries get to your house? How do your contractors get your new A/C there and installed?"

Guess what? I've been to other countries, and they have landscapers, home deliveries and air conditioning.

What they don't have is US-size "full-size" pickups and SUV's.

There are plenty of 'utility' vehicles, rather like "El Camino" style smaller pickups on a car body, and occasional somewhat larger pickups. And then commercial delivery trucks.

In reality, few of the US full-size pickup buyers (and virtulaly none of the full-size SUV buyers) actually use their trucks to their capabilities.

Back to the USA. In 1980, cars were something like 80% of the vehicle sales, trucks/suv's 20%. Today it's like 48%-52%. So, did nobody have landscaping, construction and A/C in 1980? Obviously they did. Farmers and ranchers got the trucks they needed and life went on.

The reality is that most (not all, but the large majority) of the demand today is spurious egoboosting and neurotic mommyism.

[ED: Comment edited to remove abuse.]