Measuring Patriotism

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May 07

These days, a true patriot drives a small car. Current gas prices are now making this not just an option but a necessity.

"I don’t need this much space," McHugh said of his SUV. "It just seems ridiculous."

——Did it take a spike in gas prices to realize this?

Frustrated Owners Try to Unload Their Guzzlers

—Boston Globe—

After paying $75 to fill his black Dodge Ram pickup truck for the third time in a week, Douglas Chrystall couldn’t take it anymore.

Feeling pinched at the pump, and guilty as well, Chrystall, a 39-year-old father from Wellesley, is putting ads online to sell the truck, and the family’s other gas-guzzler, a Jeep Grand Cherokee. He knows it will be tough to unload them because he is one of a growing number of consumers downsizing to smaller, more fuel-efficient cars.

Americans are turning away from the boxy, four-wheel-drive vehicles that have for years dominated the nation’s highways. Sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks - symbols of Americans’ obsession with horsepower, size, and status - are falling out of favor as consumers rich and poor encounter sticker shock at the pump, paying upward of $80 to fill gas tanks.

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