Hummers in Houston

I'm having a little Schadenfreude towards all the Hummer owners in Houston. You know, they bought those things for way too much money with some component of the macho fantasy of riding out the apocalypse in some action-hero-esque way.

Funny thing about that.

Individual owners of Hummers don't generally have trucks and supply lines bringing them fuel like the true army application. So in the evacuation yesterday, with their atrocious milage, those hummers were a huge liability. It appears the Hummer would, indeed be ideal for driving out of the apocalypse, assuming the apocalypse was only a hundred miles or so across.

The people who did best in that evacuation were the ones driving small efficient cars. A hybrid would've been golden. After all, evolution tells us that efficiency is the route to success. Insects don't develop strength they don't need, herbivores don't develop any more speed than they need to outrun their hunters. Evolution should have told us that the fuel limitations of the Hummer would be a far greater liability than their all terrain capabilities.

But then, I guess alot of those Hummer owners don't believe in evolution anyhow.

Ironic, huh?