Eco-friendly Hummers, Suburbans, and Tahoes?

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I love Hummers. A few months ago I heard they are going out of business, but they just released their newest model, the HX. So are they going out of business or not? I hope not. In my neighborhood, there are like 10 people with a Hummer in their driveway. I know Hummers use lots of gas and are huge, but do you think it would ever be possible to make a "green" Hummer? It seems like all the "green" and eco-friendly cars are boxy, ugly, and small. Why can't they make a big eco-friendly car? That would definitely be hot, because Americans like big cars, but we also want to be green nowadays, right? So why dont car companies just do that? Would it be so hard to make an eco-friendly or more fuel-efficient Hummer, Suburban, Tahoe, Escalade, etc? And if not, why is it taking so long?
linlyons ...

I never said I WANTED or bought a Hummer because my neighbors have one or for any other reason. I just said that I liked them. I'm only 16 and I already have a car. I'm just asking, why dont they make big eco-friendly cars.
 
well dey started makin hybrid tahoes n i think suburbans, but hummer would never b green bcause deyr so big n heavy n average 9 mpg which is very low
 
well, the very concept of being an enormous beast AND being green is contradictive right off the bat, since it's a cars small size and light, aerodynamic frame that makes it so fuel efficient.

Things like hummers could probably be green-ER, but their enormous size is automatically a huge drain on fuel economy and so they'll never be nearly as green as say a Prius or even a gas only accord.

Besides that, the people that drive these gas guzzlers tend to not give a damn about the environment anyway otherwise they wouldn't have one of them.

Plus, making a hummer greener would have to mean taking away some of it's HP, which is what turns people on to getting a hummer in the first place. so it really doesn't make much sense to try and make Hummers green
 
yes it would be hard.
i'm sure they'll make a hybrid, of at least one of them, but it'll get less than 15 mpg.
you just cannot push all that weight around, against all that air resistance, and get good gas mileage.
so, you're not going to find anything close to an eco-friendly hummer -- even if they tell you otherwise.

just because there are others, does that mean you need one?
surely you don't buy that many groceries.
and while the price of gas isn't bad today, it's going to go back up again.

maybe you're rolling in dough.
i just bought an old subaru, 2.2 engine, 4wd, for $2500.
wouldn't that make more sense?
do you really have a limitless checking account?
(in which case, obviously i don't have to leave anything under your tree. :-)
 
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