If oil prices didn't affect anything other than the price of gas itself, I wouldn't be bothered much if it went up to European levels of $5/gallon or so. At those prices we'd see way more practical use of gasoline. Last time as was at a dealership I was walking around and saw two H2s for sale. They looked quite out of place at a Ford dealership. As soon as I expressed a tad of interest a saleperson simply jumped on me offering me a test drive. Well, I had nothing better to do waiting on my car to be fixed, I decided to take a ride. To my surprise the H2 had 8000 on it, I asked why it was traded in. The guy said that the person "didn't like it." Once the testdrive was over, and I made it clear that I wouldn't buy such a gas guzzling hunk of metal the sales guy told me that the reason it was traded in was due to its immense appetite -- the previous owner simply couldn't keep fueling the beast. At 11-12 MPH in the city, filling up the tank with premium gets kinda pricey.