oil prices
Death of the SUV
Submitted by bart on Wed, 2008-05-07 10:26.from Global Economics Blog:
As energy prices soar, Frustrated owners try to unload their guzzlers.
Americans are turning away from the boxy, four-wheel-drive vehicles that have for years dominated the nation's highways. Sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks - symbols of Americans' obsession with horsepower, size, and status - are falling out of favor as consumers rich and poor encounter sticker shock at the pump, paying upward of $80 to fill gas tanks.
