What will happen to the millions of SUVs in the USA when gas hits between $5- $9 a gallon?

Question

What will happen to the millions of SUVs in the USA when gas hits between $5- $9 a gallon?

Answer 1

The will sit on dealership lots or driveways, nobody will drive them because they are so expensive to fill. In time they'll break down, be taken off ot the junk yard and turned into scrap metal.

Answer 2

they will be shipped to the oil rich nations where gas is cheep

Answer 3

If history truly repeats itself, people will still drive them.

If there is one thing about the economy that will never change, its people.  We will always get our way and force everything around us to change.  It has always been that way, and will always be that way.  Open any history book and read about the civilizations that have come and gone.  They all have one thing in common.  The people remained steadfast in their ways until their entire civilization was finally destroyed.

If gas prices go up that high, you can bet that people will find a way to pay for it, even if that means the economy must somehow change to support them.

Answer 4

LOL people asked the same thing back in the late 70s and early 80s about station wagons and mini vans.

And we just simply moved upward to vehicles that consumed more fuel.

So what will happen, probably nothing.

Answer 5

The resale value of SUVs will drop.

Astute used-SUV buyers will realise that the drop in price compensates for the increase in gas prices, and continue buying and using SUVs.

Answer 6

They will be gotten rid of.  Millionaires are the cheapest mother ***** ever.  Start investing in Honda stock, you gonna be rich!!!!

Answer 7

Then  those people will be be paying $200-$300 dollars to fill up their tanks while the rest of us who bought a fuel efficient cars will be paying $60 - $100 for a fill up and driving a lot more miles!  Don't worry it will happen!

Answer 8

i know that gas will go down a little when bush leaves office, im so confident in that then when my lease ended in april i bought a honda ridgeline "15 mpg" which is more like 12 mpg, but if gas does get that high we just gotta suck it up and take it, i like driving big cars cause i got in an accident when i drove a nissan murano in feb. 2006 and im still having pain from it, and i cant feel safe in small cars, i wanted a subaru legacy but i really could not feel safe in that car

when bush leaves and Obama wins i will safely bet anyone gas will go down in a years time to the low to mid $2

Answer 9

They'll end up cloging the chrysler dealership lots,as trade-ins. Invest in those who make portable 'crushers' that travel from city to city. Car insurance should drop 30%. Tire makers will begin to buy each-other out just to break even on sales.

Answer 10

we will never get it. The price gets higher because there are a lot of people who can afford that price. the world is set up like we are all rich. food goes up stamps goes up, bus fare gas, everything goes up but my paycheck. so just sit back and ride till you can't ride no more. when the class you are in no longer allows you to drive that SUV downsize. my class is up when the gas reaches about $6.00 then I just don't think it worth it i will say bye to my ford expedition will be a ford focus. LOL i hope that never happens

Answer 11

I've given that a lot of thought.  It's sad but true.

Every car that is built will be driven until it crashes or wears out.  That's because a working car is always valuable to somebody.  At worst, the high cost of fuel will hurt the car's resale value, but someone will be happy to own it.

Every new car gets sold.  Every single one.  There is no "magic place" automakers send unsold cars -- they sell them all.*   They do this by offering WHATEVER financial incentive it takes to get people to buy them.  Yeah, nobody wants a $50,000 SUV. But somebody will take it for $35,000, especially if you guarantee the cost of fuel at $2.99/gal.   That's their business.  They're VERY good at it.    Of course, the price they can sell the car at determines whether they make a profit or loss.  But getting $35,000 for a car beats getting $0 for it, everytime :)

Once the automaker commits to build a car, what follows is inevitable -- the car will be sold, and will be driven until it crashes or wears out.  The fuel to do this WILL ultimately be burned.

Why do automakers commit to building cars that make no sense with today's fuel prices?  Because you can't just call up TRW and buy 2 million piston rings.  Everything about a car's production must be planned years in advance.  Which engines will you order?  Which assembly plants will you re-tool to manufacture this car?  The Ford River Rouge plant is one of several plants making F150 trucks.  It's running about one shift a day because they're not popular right now.  Ford *wishes* they could wave a magic wand and retool River Rouge to make the Ford Focus.  If only :(

Why did they tool it to make F150s?  Because they decided that in the early 2000s when fuel was cheap and it made sense.  

But sometimes it goes in their favor.  In the 1970s, Chrysler was making cars that were "as big as a whale, seats about twenty" - and going bankrupt.  They bet the company on a new small model called the "K-Car" -- just in time for the 1979 energy crisis.  Dumb luck.  Then they built the first minivan on the K-car chassis.  Sheer genius.

Anyway, you can see, the decision to burn fuel is made literally 10 years before it happens.  When the decision to produce the car is made.  The car gets sold, bought and used - for sure.  Only the price is uncertain.

Answer 12

The biggest boats are already being replaced. Those who REALLY need such vehicles will keep them. Their gas mileage will be improved to some extent by cylinder deactivation and hybridization.

Answer 13

Pretty much the same thing that happened to all the big cars in the 70's during the gas crisis.  They'll get cheap and people that can afford it will sell them at a loss and buy something better on gas.  Those that can't will continue to drive them and just try to limit their driving as much as possible.

Answer 14

they will tune them in to lawn oddment's