Hummer and Fries
Hey kids, guess what? They're putting Hummers in the Happy Meals! According to the press release, GM, the world's largest automaker (not for long) and McDonald's, the world's largest fast food chain, have teamed up to provide miniature gas hogs to burger-eating boys around the country. Yes, just boys; to reinforce gender roles, 'girl' happy meals will come with a Polly Pocket, whatever that is.
According to the press release, boys "will receive one of eight powerful, fun-fueled miniature HUMMER vehicles, with their purchase." The company says the Hummer toys will "spark the imagination of children nationwide." Here's one truly imaginative touch: The Laser Blue H2H sports a hydrogen tank which "guests can customize with 'Hydrogen' stickers" for "added fun." Oh boy! Too bad they didn't go with biodiesel instead. Then you could put stickers on there that said, "French fry grease." Oh well.
The "Hummer of a Summer" promotion seems especially ironic with gas prices as high as they are. As the New York Times reports, it currently costs about $96 to fill a Hummer H2. And, of course, at 11 mpg, you have to fill it often. No doubt that helps explain the drop-off in Hummer sales, which are down by 34 percent from last year.
Dang. If only they really were fun-fueled.
16 Comments:
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why don't they just put armored humvees in the happy meals? kids could imagine them getting blown up by improvised explosive devices. talk about fun.
soooo screwed up!!!!!!!!
What if they put Priuses in there? Or collector's edition EV1s?
I vote for John Muir action figures!
Maybe carbon offsets in the Happy Meal. How about that?
You guys know your organization is named after a GMC pickup truck?
Maybe they should have put some gas guzzling Toyota Sequoias, Land Cruisers, and Tundras in there to keep the tree-huggers happy. Nothing says hipocracy more than a Toyota with a big 'ol V8. Why isn't the Sierra Club pounding on their door too?
Good point about Toyota and their V8 pickups. Somehow, the Hummer is just such an easy target. It's like the embodiment of all the other gas guzzlers on the road.
But, yeah, we shouldn't forget the F150s, Suburbans, Tundras, ... and on and on.
The Prius:
When a battery change for $6000 sounds like a great way to save on fuel prices and you have given in to the evil empire that is Toyota.
The Prius is nothing but a lame marketing tool for you self loathing yuppies. I have some amount of respect for those that drive a MINI with a 6-speed & you can keep you dignity that way and your car does not lug around 45 batteries full of lead.
--- Sixty8Panther@yahoo.com
One has to admire Honda for generally sticking to their guns in regards to building a clean, high MPG vehicle again and again consistantly. With the exceptions of the Pilot, Odyssey, and Ridgeline (by nature heavy and unaerodynamic), they're very 'green.' Toyota, however, is double-talk plain and simple.
And before all the domestic-bashing begins, let's remember Nissan's Armada nets 13-14mpg, Toyota's next Tundra boasts about how it'll be even larger, and General Motors introducted the nation's first SULEV gasoline V6 engine - the 3800 III V6 - found in 'guzzlers' like the 30mpg Buick LaCrosse and Pontiac Grand Prix.
Blanket accusations against HUMMER does nothing, Sierra Club. An organization such as yours with a truly wonderful goal (preserving out world) should use its resources better than to engage in hit-and-run swipes against the biggest, most popular target. We had a fuel consumption problem before HUMMERS were retailed and we'll have the same problem even if all of them were to disappear.
Making such an issue out of McDonald's toys? Tres Lame, Sierra Club; Tres Lame...
go for a drive in your prius and we'll see how you fair when you get in the way of a hummer
What a bunch of latte-drinking, tight-assed, hippie tree-huging sophomore jackasses. Hey, Sierra Club, take a hint and suck on a lemon for a while. Maybe then you'll realize how sour your nannying the American people are.
We have choices and we'll damn well make them. Hell, someone give me an H1 Alpha. I'll drive rings around the Sierra Club HQ and fart some nice gasoline fumes.
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I would not trade either my H1 nor my H2 for a pile of little imports. I don't drive as much as some people with a Prius do and so I spend less on gas (diesel). Besides you can't mow over trees in the forest in a small fuel effecient import. The good news is that I could burn leftover fry oil in the beast, but find it unnecessary until gas prices get really high.
The MPG and pollution issue aside for the moment. Hummers were designed for military use. I sat in one at the Miami Beach auto show and no way can this puppy be parallel parked. I do not see how these things are street legal. In so far as GM goes, I think the Buick Enclave is the best Buick since the 1963 Riviera, I wish they would at least make a HYBRID Enclave an option that would pump up it's MPG to 32 or so.
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