The US addiction to oil: The battered Hummer that symbolises a divided nation

Early on Monday morning, two masked men arrived there wielding baseball bats and a machete. They then set about attacking the enormous Hummer that had been parked there for not even a week. As the owner, Gareth Groves, slept, they smashed every window, battered the panels, slashed the oversized tires and scrawled “for the environ” on the side of the seven-foot-high behemoth.