Some hopeful news on the SUV front:

This past year General Motors lost over a billion dollars in sales because people began to grow wary of spending in excess of $100 dollars to fill their car up, which is very similar to what was happening in the 1970's when gas prices spiked. Due to this, there is a renewed movement to raise fuel efficiency levels and basically make it a written law for gas-guzzling vehicles such as SUV's to either ship up, or stop being produced.

If this law does get based, and it has a lot of backing from both sides, Dems and Reps, it would lead to a increased production in Hybrid cars as companies would have to start producing cars, trucks and SUVs which can get more miles to the gallon.

My hope would also be that raising fuel efficiency makes it more obvious to the general public and to law makers that we have to really put plans in motion to end our dependence on oil. If we started now and really made it a mjaor issue, studies indicate that by 2015 we could cut our dependency by 50% in the USA, yet there needs to be some sort of motivation to start this process and maybe, just maybe, something like this would be the key.

Take care all.