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Should Hummers be outlawed for road travel?

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No
68% 301 votes Total: 443 votes
Yes
32% 142 votes
  • 1 of 26

    by Stuart Smith

    The Hummer, as we know it in the United States, is that of the H2 variety. Yes, there are two other Hummers in the world, but non more present on our roads than is the H2. The o...read more

  • 2 of 26

    by Anthony Megna

    The last time I checked we still live in a free country. Anyone has the right to drive anything they want as long as it's street-legal. However, if someone wants to drive a Sh...read more

  • 3 of 26

    by Christopher Kendalls

    This is a very strange question indeed. Why would anyone outlaw Hummers for road travel in the United States? Indeed, Hummers do have low gas mileage, around 13/18 depending o...read more

  • 4 of 26

    by David Young

    Last year there were over 40,000 traffic fatalities in the United States. That figure is simply unacceptable. Tragic, tragic, tragic! Most of these deaths could have been prev...read more

  • 5 of 26

    by S.E. Whitbeck

    This is America, the land of the free. Outlawing Hummers for road travel makes America seem a little less free. Eighteen-wheelers aren't outlawed, why should Hummers be? If s...read more

  • 6 of 26

    by Louis Dicrescentis

    I cannot understand why anyone would propose the outlawing of the Hummer except for the reasons of safety and pollution. The issue at hand is that the Hummer has become one of t...read more

  • 7 of 26

    by Jonathan Webb

    Should Hummers be outlawed for road travel? Seriously, I feel like someone brings up something like this way too often these days. There are definitely hard things going on ri...read more

  • 8 of 26

    by Tabitha Hergest

    If there is any justice in the world, then there is a special kind of Hell for those who indulge in crass inanities. Okay, so wearing fluorescent pantaloons and mirrored stove-...read more

  • 9 of 26

    by Bill Whitney

    There is nothing in the world wrong with a Hummer that should make it need to be outlawed from the road. They are great vehicles and almost unstoppable in the mud and snow. If...read more

  • 10 of 26

    by Joseph Malek

    The Hummer, all terrain vehicle, was created for use by the military and it is a street legal mode of transportation for those who like to go to places that other less expensive...read more

  • 11 of 26

    by Tomahawk

    A stereotype has been generated by the "hate" that people seem to have against these cars. From what I have noticed, people tend to follow the crowd, if one person points at a ...read more

  • 12 of 26

    by Jose A. Colon Rivera

    I thought I live in America, the country that so many of my brethren has fought so hard to maintain our freedoms. I can see where our country is heading and I do not like it. Wh...read more

  • 13 of 26

    by Melanie Saxton

    We live in a land where we are free to flit about in Leer Jets, give birth to a dozen or more children, build a John Edwards-esque 20,000 square foot mansion . . . and drive a H...read more

  • 14 of 26

    by Rob Purifoy

    The last time I heard, we don't "outlaw" any freedoms of choice in most free countries, this includes choice of automobile's. As long as a vehicle is street legal and has the pr...read more

  • 15 of 26

    by Kathleen Fabregas

    I suppose the first clarification we need here is whether we're talking about all Hummers, or only the gargantuan H1. While the H1 is a status symbol, it isn't the most practica...read more

  • 16 of 26

    by Donald Fairchild

    Heck No, some of the main reasons that people buy the Hummer is for ego reasons. There are a few that might want to drive it for its theoretical off-road abilities. But those f...read more

  • 17 of 26

    by Ron Swallow

    I am supposed to write an article of 350 words or more answering the question "Should Hummers be outlawed for road travel", but that's kind of hard when the answer is so short. ...read more

  • 18 of 26

    by David Wragg

    Hummers should not be outlawed for road travel. We need to change peoples views, and make them vote with their feet and wallets. As Voltaire exclaimed, "'I disapprove of wh...read more

  • 19 of 26

    by Travis Taylor

    I see no reason why the H1 should be banned from citizen use although I do believe the H2 should be banned from civilian use. The H1 is a military vehicle,heavy duty piece of...read more

  • 20 of 26

    by Roberto Alvarez-Galloso

    The Hummer is one of the best selling cars in the United States of America. Anyone who proposes outlawing the Hummer are either the conventional politicians called Republicans a...read more

  • 1 of 9

    by Juan Izquierdo

    The Hummer serves only one purpose, and that is to the satisfy the narcisistic needs of the totally self-absorbed people who purchase these vehicles. On every other level, it is...read more

  • 2 of 9

    by Raymond Alexander Kukkee

    "Buy a Hummer? Which one, an H-1? Absolutely not. It's a gas-guzzling tank." "An H-3? Hmmm...not likely. It's a Yuppie truck." Is it the reasonable application of logic ...read more

  • 3 of 9

    by Sean Curtis

    I can fully understand the side of the argument that says people should be able to drive whatever they want on America's roads. After all, we do live in a free country. There wo...read more

  • 4 of 9

    by McJess

    Hummers should be outlawed for road travel. I'll even take it a step further and recommend that they be taken off the market for personal ownership altogether. The whole purpo...read more

  • 5 of 9

    by Alex Stone

    So you wanna buy a Hummer? - Okay, so do you remember back in the day when the, newly titled gas guzzling "truck" named the "Hummer" was called a tank and was only used for ...read more

  • 6 of 9

    by Leslie Schwab

    Hummers that have been offered by General Motors for sale to the public were initially based on the vehicles utilized by the military. The first of these vehicles, the H1, had ...read more

  • by Chazam

    Hmmm...notice I'm "humming" how can I put this politely? Oh yes, "I hate,loathe, abhor Hummers!" You know what they say the smaller the (fill in the blank) the bigger the tank.....read more

  • 8 of 9

    by Joe Martin

    ABSOLUTELY! There is not one justifiable reason for the average person to own a Hummer for daily "On Road" driving. But I can hear it now, all the civil rights people saying "Yo...read more

  • 9 of 9

    by Kelley Farrell

    Should Hummers be outlawed for road travel? I can see the environmental stance that someone would take, but personally I won't take that stance. A Hummer is a vehicle and people...read more

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