As oil passes $ 122 a barrel and the sight of future $ 5.00 gas starts coming into view only a fool will not recognize the day of the big SUV is over and none too soon. Peak oil is a reality and the motoring ways of the US will be due for major major changes in teh next few years.

The vast majority of all the big SUV buyers now and in the last several years will be so upside down it will be unbelievable. I lived through 1974 and 1978 and when gas prices / shortages went through the roof you couldn’t give away big sedans and station wagons. Several recent articles speak to how used car dealers are reluctant to even buy SUV’s for resale because they aren’t reselling.