I would like to comment on an article in April 24’s Sun Journal by The Associated Press glorifying a new model of the Hummer. It’s insane that this newspaper would carry such an article during the oil-gas crisis that we are experiencing and will continue to see into the foreseeable future.

If you do a little math with the figures that were listed in the article, you would see that this vehicle gets about 11 miles per gallon. This is not the first mistake the paper has made in this regard. There was another article glorifying the other smaller version of this monstrosity, which, by the way, achieved about the same fuel efficiency.

I was amused by that article when some real estate person commented that he or she could take clients where other vehicles couldn’t go. What’s wrong with getting out of one’s vehicle and getting a little exercise?

The greed of carmakers has no bounds. It doesn’t matter the impact on the environment the monsters will be spewing nor does it matter that we are expending huge amounts of money guarding our overseas sources of oil so that we can feed these behemoths. What is even worse is that we are shedding the blood of our young men and women in this effort.

I wish Congress would pass meaningful legislation to mandate greater fuel economy. In absence of that, there is one good thing about current gas prices: It has slowed sales of these huge gas hogs.

Blaine M. Davis, Lisbon Falls