The Deadly Hummer

The Hummer has to be the most-hated vehicle in history; a 2-ton, 10 mpg piece of utterly pointless machinery for people with egos the size of a planet and a very small penis.

Then there are the chauffeur companies that even have them as stretch-limos! Come on, a stretch hummer? Whoever thinks a Hummer is cool is seriously lacking in the brain department.

So if you hate the Hummer as much as it deserves to be hated, then you'll be happy to see the Monster Truck t-shirt from Fat American.

Beyond the sheer contempt these vehicles encourage in the vast majority of rational & sensible people, the story of the Hummer and it's extensive use by the US military in fields of conflict where security of oil supply for an overly-thirsty nation is more palatably known as "democracy", is the same story behind this biodiesel t-shirt. As the text on the Fat American website says:

On this SUV is a yellow magnetic ribbon that states “Support Our Troopsâ€. The ribbon is manufactured in China and profits from the sale of it don’t go to disabled veterans or the families of dead soldiers. The owner of this SUV supports the war since it is patriotic to do so. The war is largely about oil and since this SUV requires a large amount of it, its owner is glad when gas prices go down.

Stopped at a traffic light next to this SUV is a small electric car with a “END THE WAR! Bring Our Troops Home Now!†sticker.

The driver of each car stares at the other in disgust but only one of the drivers has a valid reason to do so.

When the light turns green, both cars take off, one of them emits a poisonous exhaust. If you look at the fumes closely you might see the skulls of US troops and Iraqi civilians who paid for the gas in the SUV’s tank.

That's pretty succinct. We couldn't have said that better ourselves. But that's not all, the piece finishes on another gem of a quote from Ralph Nader:

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

The t-shirt is $20 with free shipping in the US & Canada, how much to the UK, Europe & the rest of the world I don't know. The American Apparel #2001 shirt the design is printed on is sweat-shop free but unfortunately not organic.

Nice.

Comments

How freakin cool....shall I bring you one?