Hi Gdorn,
I am glad that my post has caught the attention of many bloggers. I am not on a hummer campaign here. I found the fact surprising too. However, I feel it is necesary to know the pros and cons of any technology...it makes us more aware and prevent us from taking a step blindly.

Do keep penning your views here.

Thank you.

The basic math in this story is so awful it almost deserves framing.

Each year residential cars and light trucks travel over 2.5 trillion Miles. Using the CNW ’industry average’ number of $2.25 energy cost per mile, that works out to 5.6 trillion dollars. The US GDP is 12 trillion. Over 1/3 of the economy goes into the energy costs of owning our cars? What about housing, schools, air travel, electricity, all other industries?

In fact, the total amount of energy expenditure in the us for 2002 was a 0.6 trillion dollars. (source: Energy Information Administration ) This covered gasoline, natural gas, coal,hydro, etc, etc. Only some fraction of this expenditure was for building, maintaining and disposing of cars (cars are the most successful recycling story in the world).

In fact according to this silly report, US cars use twice as much energy as it takes to run the entire planet.

I think that the persons who wrote this report may think that they did an honest job, but the simple fact is that the report is total complete garbage.

If you download the report, they even have a few people in the report who point out these absurdities, and their answers to them are laughable.

Anything to get on CNN.

Tom Andersen

Why dont we drive deisels and salvage used vegatable oil from the local restaurant refine it in ur back yard barrel and drive for free with ur conversion kit :0)

Geologist outlook on E85 — proven will longate the life of fossil fuels on earth by only using 15%~ releases more CO2 on an energy normalized basis than octane and has more upstream costs which will multiply as supply demand and shipping costs increase~~ Celulose ~ Veg Oil... cheaper way of getting the product on our way but if ur concerned about the environment and not having gasoline in the year 2200 go find some new cleaner fuel~!

I think that if people follow certain tips to save gas, even if they own a gas-guzzler like the Hummer, they can still save up.