The over-the-top, juvenile chauvinism inherent in this vehicle is demonstrated in this photo at a GM dealership in Vancouver: http://bp2.blogger.com/_yNxuaFYeuXs/SAUzcn99rAI/AAAAAAAAEqc/YadSat0t5fc/s1600-h/P1000231_edited.JPG. Not only should there be a "Bye, Bye Hummer" party, there should be a "Humbled Hummer" image to contrast with the above one.

We have knuckleheads driving [or not driving] these in the UK, where gasoline is currently 9.95 USD per gal US.

The resale value must have plummeted!

Some time ago, one of the H2s was reviewed on TV and it achieved one MPG when driven exuberently. Whether that's in gals US or IMP, I don't know. But either way, it would get expensive!

I look forward to even more expensive gasoline, if only to force these morons off the road.

www.stopurban4x4s.org.uk

See Greenpeace's film asking 4x4 drivers 'what does your car say about you?'
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/gasguzzler/downloads.html

Methanex (Vancouver, BC) sells straight-run, anhyd. methanol for $1.50/US Gal. Racing cars use methanol, and they go like stink!

FlexFuel cars could use this fuel with some modification.

There are several problems with the use of methanol as fuel. Firstly, the vapor and liquid are poisonious so special procedures would have to be develop for general use.

Secondly, methanol has low volatility and this would preclude use in cold climates. However, addition of dimethyl ether would lower the flash point to about -41 deg C. In gasoline butane is added to lower the flash point to this same value.

Thirdly, methanol is a powerful solvent and this would require materials resistant to it.

Fourthly, metnaol has less energy than gasoline, so more would be required to travel the same distance but this is compensated for by its low price.

One advantage of methanol is that it would burn much cleaner than gasoline, thus reducing air pollution.

Use of methanol as a fuel is a no brainer. It is manufactured from nat gas and Canada has lots of.

The market made us sell these rolling idols to consumption!

Hummer is merely a brand name.
Other than the H1, Hummer vehicles are just reskinned GMCs.
Hummer is not the problem...the whole mindset behind Hummer is the problem...

Any male who wants or drives a huge 4X4 like a Hummer must be suffering from Very Tiny Penis Syndrome.

Basically, no-one needs one of these!

On BBC Top Gear's motoring programme, the drivers demonstrated in the programme's £1500 Two Wheel Drive African Cross-Country Car Challenge
that it wasn't necessary to have a 4X4 to drive on slightly less than perfect tarmac or offroad. They crossed the Makgadikgadi, a large salt pan in Northern Botswana (Africa). The Makgadikgadi are as wide as Portugal ~110 km / ~70 miles. Apparently the Makgadikgadi had not previously been crossed by any car, let alone knackered old cars.
Yet they managed it!

Who needs a 4X4? Clearly, very few! Most 4X4 drivers would chicken-out.

The first part of six is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwiTlqv0PR4
The rest are also available on YouTube.

If anyone else is foolhardy enough to try, perhaps they will get feed the Hyenas and the vultures.