[RayChuang88]

If the prices stay "high" you will begin to see people make rational decisions that affect demand a lot- car pooling or parking Yukon's and driving Geo's instead, for example.

That does explain why we'll be seeing these new small cars coming out in 2006:

Honda Fit (known as the Jazz in most of the World):

Toyota Yaris:

Both cars offer impressive amounts of interior space for such a small vehicle, and I expect them to be very popular as commuter cars and as entry-level cars.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Noe, try to fit a 4x8 sheet of pkywood, or 4 sheets of sheetrock, or a dishwasher or lawnmower or a cardtable or set of chairs or a 48 12 foot steel 1x1 pieces of tubing it. Add a welder, 3 toolboxes, and .....

Nice for simple one-person commuting, but that all.

[SVTCobra03]

Not everyone wants an ugly, slow, thin sheet-metal car. Not everyone wants to drive a "practical" car. Some people drive SUV's or large pickups because they feel safer and some people drive high performance cars because they enjoy the experience. This is still a free country without central planning and as long as someone has the resources to purchase and maintain such vehicles, then I say more power to them.

[STARWISE]

My cynical son is telling me that owners of SUV's get tax breaks ... do you know if that's true?