LBO 105 (was Re: [lbo-talk] Hummers (LBO 104))

[Shane Taylor]

Timothy Francis-Wright wrote:
> The back page of LBO #104 mentions that the Hummer
> land yacht has been selling like hotcakes, even without
> the 0% financing that almost every other General
> Motors car or light truck.
>
> But the Hummer comes with incentives for buyers that
> go beyond the merely symbolic, if the buyers have
> corporate status.  Because it has a gross vehicle weight
> rating of over 8500 pounds, it is not subject to the
> special rules that limit depreciation of vehicles.

Is there any demographic info on who's buying the commodified
obnoxiousness?

Oh, something else from LBO 104:


> Speaking of the euro, there’s a theory circulating on
> the net that the U.S. went to war because Iraq wanted
> to price its oil in euros, not dollars. That’s grossly
> overheated speculation. More on this and related
> issues when LBO begins an investigation of the
> political economy of oil in the next issue.

<Beavis voice>  Rawk!

Any idea when that could hit the presses?

-- Shane, who once saw a stretch limo Hummer

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