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Old 12-30-2010, 03:16 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Britons managing to survive despite $7/gal gasoline is proof that $5/gal won't doom us. I'm occasionally skeptical that it'll even change us. Here we are at $3/gal, and people are still out there buying pickup trucks and six cylinder cars to drive twenty miles to work each day. Sure, we're using less gas than we did in 2007, but we're still very wasteful.
Yup :

2010 Trends: Higher Sales, Lower Incentives, More Recalls, Lofty Used-Car Prices, Additional Technology - Auto Observer - December 2010
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Stable gas prices through most of the year meant that consumers were more willing to buy gas-hungry pickup trucks and SUVs, especially large ones. The rise of sales in those segments is due, in part, because those were the hardest hit by the recession and 2008's gas price spike. And buyers of vehicles like pickup trucks, who use them for their work, had simply put off replacing their old ones during the recession and could wait no longer.
And don't forget China :

China Jan-Apr SUV sales soar 118% to 373,527 units - May 2010
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n April, China SUV sales jumped 113% to 105,585 units, of which the Great Wall Hover ranked first with sales reaching 13,000 units, followed by the pre-winner Honda CR-V (12,000), Toyota RAV4 (8,059), Zotye (7,513) and Toyota Highlander(6,524), with all five models' sales rising more than 40% from a year earlier.
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