The HUMMER is Dead: Sunset on the SUV! Yay!

Someone at GM must have read my last entry. They’ve just announced a discontinuation of the most reprehensible, selfish, ugly and symbolic vehicle ever produced: the evil, massive HUMMER H-1.

General Motors Corp. announced plans Friday for the H1, which is the foundation for the automaker’s Hummer brand. Based on the military’s Humvee, the about 12,000 put on the road since 1992 defined the Hummer name.

To anyone who ever bought this gas sucking behemoth, I declare that your bad taste rivals your stupidity. Now, you can only get a used one – if you enjoy the thought of copping 10 m.p.h. on your way from Exxon station to Exxon station.

To anyone who has never heard of the “Sunset Effect” theory, it goes like this: things on our culture grow more and more garish, coming to the point of ridiculous overkill, and then utterly disappear. Think how Afro haircuts, or those trucker wallets with big chains, or sideburns, or bell bottoms, all grew larger and larger and then, poof, you never saw ‘em again.

Thus, the death of the HUMMER H-1 surely heralds the beginning of the end of the SUV. Friends, this is good news indeed. For our selves, our planet, our kids and our country. Yay!