Setup?

While driving through lovely Tampa Bay, and noticing all the lovely big honking suv's, Sara asked me if I thought it was weird that big vehicles like the hummer and the 8 door pickup trucks got really popular just before the age of ridiculous gas prices. Almost as if the manufacturers saw it coming and threw down the advertising to convince us to buy their big ass vehicles before it was too late. Not following me? Basically, the market for big cars is dieing and will be gone soon as gas prices continue to rise. This leaves dealers and manufactures with a ton of cars that get 2 3/4 miles to the gallon that no one in their right mine would buy. A lot of money goes down the shitter this way. So basically what Sara was asking was, Is it possible for the manufactures to sway the market enough and far enough in advance, to talk consumers into thinking gas hawgs are cool?

I'd say yes. If movies like Fahrenheit 911 could look up all this dirt on the pre-war stuff and document all the signs that the US government should have seen coming and how lots of it was a big setup and all, then I ask you, Why couldn't a car manufacturer with buddies that just so happen to drill for oil, and a billion dollars to invest in market researchers that study political events to predict the ups and downs of the economy, look up this same stuff, perhaps notice the things that ol' Mike said were blaringly obvious. Not to mention that why pay dudes to reseearch and predict this stuff when you can "donate" some funds in the way of the government to get an inside look at whats going on. That way when its about to get thick, your buddy the senator calls you up with a tip.

I don't know seems crazy, but the girl is smart. She might have something.