On the one hand, a row of unsold gas-guzzling behemoths, from One Giant Metaphor, reporting on a “Hummer dealer… in a panic…. year-to-year sales down about 50%,”

On the other hand, a photograph that I took in Hyderabad a couple of weeks ago, of a family of five on a motor scooter:

[N.b. I’ve grabbed a copy of the Hummer pic because linking to the original was unreliable. Hope that’s OK.]