See, now I kind of think it's the other way around. I think the Nissan looks terrible, and I kind of like the Range Rover.

My guess? A one-off special grocery getter for one of the many Middle Easterners who all seem to share the same first name: "Prince". YOu know, the ones that seem to have more money than they know what to do with, so they commission things like this.

Yeah, I guess I should've proofread that; Mercedes left in 2005, BMW left in 2000. Derp.

Ah, another pro athlete for another Chicago team joins Lance Briggs in not really being investigated...

Although, I do have to say it was funny to see the woman in Chicago complaining about gas prices, when it looked like she was standing next to a Range Rover. If you're going to complain about gas prices, don't spend $80K on a car.

The execution looks better that that terrible Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet.

9 championships spread across four different teams in four different sports in 30 years isn't exactly the poster child for winning. And that's not to mention the fifth team that hasn't been to a championship game in over a century.

Because I'm afraid I won't be able to get my hands on any other, so I outbid you at $120. Then someone else outbids the both of us at $135. And most of the time, it's motivated by fear, as the cost to pull it out of the ground hasn't really changed.

Fossil fuel plants aren't the only ones that pollute. Spend nuclear fuel remains dangerous for millenia.

Well said. You made a coherent, rational argument, and supported it with facts.

I will agree that the media hype is definitely an issue as well.

There's more to the price of a gallon of gas than the cost of a barrel of oil. Costs are going up everywhere.

"MPG Equivalent (MPGe)". They're closer to 30 MPG when running on the gas engine, but they figure in the electric-only range (and don't add in the cost of the electricity, or the pollution at the generating source, for that matter) and work it through some sort of formula to make it look like the mileage is a lot…

Yup. Welcome Deficit Spending's twin brother, Inflation, who just arrived for an extended stay...

Nice to see there are a few others out there that understand what's really going on. I wrote a nice, long comment that's sure to be ignored.

What's going on with the comments today, as that was a reply to a different comment (obviously).

Didn't BMW and Mercedes both try hatchbacks in the U.S. market relatively recently? Didn't they both pretty much fizzle? The BMW version left North America in 2005, and Mercedes followed suit in 2005; has that much changed in the last 10 years? Would people here buy them now, when they didn't not all that long ago?

Speculators are definitely part of the issue- if anyone in the Middle East so much as sneezes these days, the price at the pump goes up a nickel. Unfortunately, there's a lot more to it than just the speculators.

The last time gas prices were this high, it was because oil was $147 a barrel; a good third more than they are today. Why?

Augh- my eyes! What has been seen cannot be unseen!