Anyone with enough coin to toss around to be able to afford a Hummer is definately not worried about rising gas prices, that much I can gaurantee you. GM will probably never stop production of it. They might limit the number produced, but Hummer has been around forever and it's not going anywhere. And I didn't buy a Nitro soley for its looks... I have to have an SUV for work, and the Nitro I bought was the best deal going. I just bought it last week, and i got it for $10,000 less than any other mid sized suv on the market. It is an '07, but with only 7000km on it, it might as well have been new. And since I picked it up for under $18,000, and my company pays the gas I use, I can't complain. Not to mention most minivans have roughly the same size engine, and get the same mileage... SUV's will be around for years to come, no matter what happens at the pumps... Women feel safe in them, men feel manly in them, and not everyone has the option of driving some little Hyundai Accent, or Suzuki Swift, that you can't fit cargo, or a family into... So while sales may be declining and gas prices may be rising, trucks, vans, and suvs are a much needed type of vehicle, and so if the Automotive industry gets off its ass and starts making more hydrogen, hybrid, electric, and compressed air powertrains for them, they will continue to roll the roads. Why they didn't start making these powertrains years ago, when we know for a fact that none of which are a new technology can only be all the big $$$$ the governments, and motor corparations have invested in oil. Hell 15 years ago I saw a documentary about a car powered by nothing but water. Anyone who took science in high school has seen the experiment involving the electrolosis of water and how it seperates into pure hydrogen and oxygen in there gaseous states. If you put a burning stick in the beaker with hydrogen it explodes, and put it into the oxygen beaker it burns like crazy. Someone had applied this experiment into real life and built a car around the concept. Fill the tank with water, which is seperated by electrolosis, then inject the two gases into the engine and you get a perfect, powerful explosion. But no motor corp wanted any part of it, because this kind of technology means every rich prick on the planet who has invested in oil is put in financial risk. And so now only because of the pressure of the people, who are worried about global warming and the future of our planet have we started to see a slight change. The hybrid is absolutely ridiculous by the way. They invented something to look like they care, but don't have to eliminate the use of oil... France is starting production of the exact same technology using compressed air, in place of fuel.... Have you heard about in on american TV? No, of course not, because it doesn't use oil.
YouTube - The Air Car