I work in a big place with lots of other employees; and it seems like everybody and their brother is getting new pickup trucks.

Not the smaller mid-sized ones ( Colorado, Frontier, Dakota ) but the big mastadon Dodge Rams, Tundras, Titans, F950's ( or whatever they're up to now ) so massive the underside of the body/frame is 2 feet off the ground.

Several I spoke to bought them just because gas got less expensive. They had some pretty nice cars before, but they traded them in on trucks.

I just couldn't get over the knee-jerk decisions like that. I also can't get over how friggin huge that full size pickups have become.

looks like their stock is worth investing in. 6.6% up is so much better then most banks .01 interest earning account.

Personally, my truck only gets driven when there's no alternative (buying lumber, etc.), the rest of the time it stays parked. It makes absolutely zero sense to drive something that gets 13 mpg when a more efficient vehicle can perfectly well get me from point A to point B.

-but ESPECIALLY GM- spent too many years during the 1990s and 2000s concentrating on trucks and SUVs while ignoring their sedans. Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Plymouth were ignored to death and in Chevrolet devolved into the equivalent of 1990s-era Hyndais (cheap disposable transportation); a situation which has only recently been reversed somewhat.

During that period, GM added two new divisions, Saturn (which was eventually tossed away like a puppy that got too big and isn't cute anymore) and Hummer.. the most obnoxious line of vehicles ever made. Not only that, GM decided that Cadillac should have its own line of SUVs and even a pickup truck! I've never owned a GM vehicle, but I hate them for their arrogance and short-sightedness. GM is like the corporate equivalent of the American foreign policy: Keep repeating the same mistakes not learning from them.

GM is currently making the same advertising mistake with Buick and Chevrolet that it did with Oldsmobile. The bastards never learn.

BTW, Plymouth was a Chrysler division.

Plymouths in my family. As a kid, my dream car was a Barracuda - which needless to say is never going to happen. Chrysler seemed to give up on Plymouth in the 1980s, right about the time they acquired Jeep. It's like the new adopted child got all the attention.

As for Oldsmobile, that division showed some real spunk in the final years (especially with the Aurora); for a moment it looked like the Olds would re-emerge as a contender. But GM mostly left them with the same kinds of badge engineered stuff that doomed Plymouth.

2015 is shaping up to be the hottest fucking year in RECORDED HISTORY, we're already probably past the point of no return on climate change, and here we are, just gobbling up more of these carbon-spewing dick extenders to clog the roads with even further.

Murika, fuck yeah!