Once gas gets to above $5.00 and stays there for a year, the number of large trucks will disappear enough to make small cars much safer. It's the collusion between houses on wheels and small cars that sends the small car fatality rates higher. Personally I prefer to drive my 4runner's everyday and my FJ60 in the weekends. After seeing the prices of Hummers on Ebay take a nosedive, I was going to buy a Hummer , until I did some research on it. It's basically a POS. <a href="http://imageshack.us"><img src="http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/1529/hummervsfordsy8.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/></a><br/><a href="http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=440&i=hummervsfordsy8.jpg"><img src="http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/1529/hummervsfordsy8.69bbfd3494.jpg" border="0"></a>
It's too bad I can't unleash how I really feel about this topic because I would be banned in a second. It would go something like this quote I found on another board which was not written by me, so don't even think that for a second.
Not quite... Another exception is very large 4-wheeldrive SUVs. This group is mostly Ford Excursions, which have a driver death rate of 115 per million â higher than the death rates in large 4-wheel-drive SUVs and higher than in all but 4 of the midsize and small counterparts.
The exception that proves the rule.. hey how about you hop in a Civic and I jump in a SUV and we drive straight at each other at 50 MPH and see who walks away
At 50 MPH, probably nobody.. But of course. Didn't you dissenters take any physics in community college? (I would have said "high school", but from the intellectual prowess displayed on ET, doubt many here were APers.) SUV's have a higher death toll from rollovers... higher center of gravity, you know. But when it comes to a collision between 2 bodies of significantly different mass... The Big Dog Eats, if you know what I mean.
I don't drink Starbucks, in fact I don't drink coffee at all. I mostly drink water (tap not bottled) and I HATE these gas prices. It's not so much the gas price itself, it's what that higher price is doing to everything else like groceries, electricity, and every product that has to be shipped from one place to another....all combined to mean that I can do a LOT less with the money I have.
Your driving skills ultimately play the most important role in avoiding an accident in the first place. Go for a Skip Barber course (even the most basic one) and you'd be far safer in a Civic than the average SUV driver would ever be.
Oh yeah? What about the Civic driver who gets creamed by the SUV driver who's putting on makeup, texting, fumbling for a cigarette or cell phone? As I tell my "multi-tasking" wife... somebody better be paying attention. And as you can't count on the other guy, it had better be you.
The OP made an unfair comparison. We do not only pay for high oil price but also food prices, higher cost for vacation as a result of high oil price. Oil price does affect inflation. Would somebody drink a gallon of coffee a day? Will food prices follow if the coffee skyrocket? Chances are food prices have a tendency to follow oil than coffee since planes and trucks are using oil rather than coffee to transport those foods.