The majority of sales are in that category. http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/story/2012-01-04/truck-sales/52381866/1

That's completely warless. No war has ever been fought over electricity in this country.

And purchasing inefficient vehicles of whatever shape and size greatly contribute to both.

Since you appear to enjoy trucks and SUV's, I was just curious: are you concerned about either problem, and if so how do you reconcile the obvious conflict that arises?

Buying some tiny car may make you feel better but it has no meaning towards global warming. Tens of millions of people are entering the middle class in China and guess what -- they are buying cars. The same is occurring all over the developing world. For every event you think does 'x' about global warming there are a 100 events doing 'x' against that.

I drive trucks because of safety. I am above the traffic and see better than those in cars. i am surrounded by hundreds of pounds of steel -- not the plastic in small cars. In an equal accident trucks will wind up in much better shape than cars.

I imagine it us rather ethically convenient to conflate those concerned with leaving a sustainable planet with "hater crowd".

And while the confusion is most certainly short-sighted (at best), I do in fact, see the visceral satisfaction one may feel by consciously rendering two wholly separate concepts as one.

for you to conflate those who like pickups and SUVs with being unconcerned about leaving a sustainable planet.

And only bound to go higher, they have my condolences.

But I'm sure we'll hear them bitching just as much as the next guy when skyrocketing fuel costs create a second recession and drive up the cost of groceries, or when devastating climate swings start to destroy cropland and melt ice caps (well, more than we've already started to see, that is).

I don't care what the price of gas is -- inflation adjusted it has been much higher and people got by. What I do care about is safety. In my pickup I am above traffic and can see much better than those in cars. Also in an accident a pickup will get through an accident in much better shape than most cars. So you can drive around in your plastic car and you have my condolences when someone smashes into you. I won't need them.

I'm kind of glad my minivan died back in October. The nearest bus stop is more than half a mile away, and grocery shopping is a pain in the ass, but my transportation is only $30 per month. I know it's going to jack up the cost of groceries, and $1.50 for an avacado is not good, but I can live with it.

So I can buy them used with 10-20K and save 10's of thousands of dollars
Thanks!

Hopefully they start addressing this now. It would be great if reclaiming some of the abandoned factories could be a viable solution.

Julie

Domestic cars = 328,130
Import cars = 129,575

Domestic light trucks = 378,205
Import light trucks = 74,359

http://wardsauto.com/keydata/USSalesSummary and spreadsheet of sales data that is available on that page.
Note that December 2011 saw a sales spike above November and January, so maybe the dealers had a truck sale.

This mild winter can't be good for fleet sales.