For some reason, the remainder of my comment was not included. Here it is:

However when the owner of a Hummer was interviewed, and he lamented about the high cost of filling the 32 gallon tank of his 8 mpg behemoth, my thoughts were other than charitable. According to my calculations, at $3.50 per gallon it would take $112 to fill the tank of his beast ($4.00 per gallon and $128 per tank by the end of this year), on which he will be able to drive a distance of roughly 256 miles. If he traveled the same distance as me, he’d be filling up at least twice per week, or 9 times per month, totaling about $1000. I average about $200.00 per month, but have observed several Hummers driving the same route as me.
Several years ago, I decided to do my part in helping to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gases. I purchased a hybrid car. I also made a number of lifestyle changes, mostly around the house; like lowering the water heater temperature, and turning the heating thermostat down during the winter. I planted lots of trees, landscaped with drought-tolerant plants and made an effort to cut down on water usage. I changed all of my incandescent light bulbs to CFU’s. I have made every attempt to become carbon neutral. Meanwhile, others have chosen to take a different direction, especially those who tend to purchase Hummers.

In the age of bigger is better, we've been introduced to large screen TV’s (I’m guilty of this one myself), earth-shaking sub-woofers in vehicles (It’s obligatory for these drivers to roll down the windows so that they may share their music with the rest of us), plus sizes, 2,000 calorie burgers and generous meal servings. We are now faced with an obesity epidemic. No longer can the old family station wagon accommodate the average American’s girth; not even a minivan. Now it takes a converted military cargo troop carrier to accommodate our inflated derrières and egos.

In his comic strip, Doonesbury, Gary Trudeau once posed the outrageous idea of marketing an even larger military vehicle to consumers. The artwork featured a family comfortably situated in the vehicle's interior; mom and dad in front, the daughter in the middle compartment, and junior manning the cannon. It had a caption that went something this:

"Be the first to have one on your block to have your very own M1 Abrams tank!"

As it turns out, Trudeau was not far off the mark!

Of course, the Hummer is a product of General Motors, the folks who brought us other gluttonous SUV’s like the Chevy Suburban. Here in Southern California, we seem to have an abundance of them to help us traverse the rugged city streets. To me, Hummer owners (with the possible exception of a handful of those who use bio-diesel & vegetable oil) not only show a total disregard for the shortage of fossil fuels and an alarming increase in C02 emissions, but proudly and openly display their arrogance. Even though fuel prices have been skyrocketing and there has been glaring evidence of global climate change, many of these individuals have knowingly purchased vehicles which are considered the least fuel efficient and the worst polluters in their class. http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/22514.shtml

According to Edmunds.com:

Getting the 3-tons-plus H2 up to 60 mph is an effort that takes nearly 11 seconds, and gas mileage is absolutely dismal; we've averaged just 9.2 mpg overall in our testing.
http://www.edmunds.com/hummer/h2/2007/review.html

I suspect the mpg rating only surpasses that of the space shuttle, but the spaceship probably kicks ass in the 0 - 60 category. Ever since the Hummer's origins, the vehicle's performance seems to have gone downhill (no pun intended). It’s not too much of a stretch, then, to envision the Hummer of the future, which is aptly lampooned:

"The Hummer H8 sport utility vehicle

Gas mileage reduced to 3.7 mpg (that's a good thing, right?), weight increased to 9,250lbs, and the engine replaced by a 1800HP, V24, 72 liter powerhouse! Global warm my ass!"

It gets better:

"Take a look at the all new, all powerful, gas guzzling, Earth f**king, Hummer H8! You can be the envy of the mall parking lot and help take over the world, two parking spots at a time. Now, real men will show the puny hybrid owners that they're a full three inches when they're behind the wheel of their shiny, Hummer H8. And women can transport an entire soccer team, while simultaneously drinking their mocha, applying eye liner, and chatting on their cell phones. That's right, when you're driving The Earth F**ker, you can do whatever you want! Who can stop you anyway?"

http://www.hummerh8.com/

My sentiments exactly! So, do I shed a tear for that poor wretched Hummer owner who claims to be an unwitting victim of runaway fuel prices? To be honest, I couldn’t help but take some perverse pleasure in his conundrum. But then, my chuckling came to an abrupt end. I realized the horrendous implications; we are all now paying the price for this idiot and others like him, and their fuel-chugalugging penis-extenders.