The Hummer was an outrages military automobile that Arnold Schwarzengger just had to have. He used his influence as an awful actor and made calls to be the first to own a hummer as soon as it was run trough the assembly line. The hummer has been a total loser and was eventually sold to a Chinese company to serve the interests and be a elite luxury automobile.
This story and others o. The rise of the SUV and terrible consequences on Americas climate and energy wastes is the basis of the book called "High and Mighty" written by Keith Bradsher. The most interest g aspect is the amount of money these companies cut costs so they can market and advertise more in changing the habits and needs of drivers in the world. They used celebrities with big media exposures to market these dangerous killer vehicles as something of the norm and righteous for our roads. Arnold Schwarzenegger's role in this is shameful and embarrassing to have the same name of this jackass. Arnold used his power to actually press GM executives to how this vehicle should be designed and changed from its military use to road destruction use for rich assholes like him who need big vehicles to be noticed and admired from a puerile public who makes jerks like this Austrian into some important spokesmen to peddle unsafe massive machines on the roads.
The author goes trough the trouble for cities with these SUVs and manipulation of regulations for working vehicles to get more of these dangerous five ton tanks onto the roads at the detriment of everyone sharing the roads. These are vehicles that should of never been allowed on the road but thanks to the laissez faire perception of capitalism thoughts with money ca push their agenda for these gas guzzlers and produce genocidal wars on the lower classes.
An extra 2000 deaths on the roads can be attributed to just the larger size of see trucks and SUVs that serve no real practical use for the vast majority of people who purchase these vehicles except to make some sort of status statement to strangers. The American trend to developing big a d bigger cars has been established and goes against the norm for industrial civilized societies that know the most pressing issue this planet faces is global warming. The first portions of this interesting book shows the road was paved to increase the size of. Whiles and political decisions that made this possible as automakers constantly fought regulations on the safety of new models and vehicles. The tax abuse from business and dishonest use of these business trucks into everyday grocery and other mundane use outside of business is also mentioned several times from Mr Bradsher. The most interesting and pathetic use of making these killer vehicles so popular though is using people like Schwarzenegger and other movie stars to make these vehicles have more mass appeal.
Hummers are the most egregious examples of pollution and fuel economy waste and only people who are vastly overpaid for doing little like Arnold Schwarzenegger who were attracted to the hummer in his twisted need to express machismo and a to identity as his testosterone levels started dropping would be arrogant enough to be affiliated to something like this that is so destructive in nature. Luckily General Motors wasted a lot of money paying moronic middle men like Arnold and they had to scrap their massive plans at creating mini hummers that they hoped would be as common as the Honda Civic on the streets. The end of this book Bradsher gives suggestions how to politically organize and fight back against the SUV and other big vehicles in society and several of his plans sound pretty good on restricting the use and rise
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