Sentences with phrase «big gas guzzlers»

With oil cheap and its supply apparently limitless, we over-consumed, created massive suburban vistas accessible only by car, and built great big gas guzzlers to ride around in, giving little thought to alternative energy sources.
Therefore, if you buy a big gas guzzler today, you are locking yourself into perpetually high gasoline bills.
And we just sold our big gas guzzler for a more fuel efficient car.

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In a pre-CAFE-escalation Hail Mary, SRT decided that its big - body muscle cars needed an extra dose of horsepower while there was still regulatory room — the only real penalty of the Hellcat is the Gas Guzzler Tax.
The big, bad T / A 392 will cost you $ 45,090, not including the all - important gas - guzzler tax.
Economy cars has always been available, but did not sell nearly as well as large and comfu gas - guzzler... status symbols... safety... and many excuses for buying big and livin» large!
[5] Ford was said not to concern about losing money on the Focus so the company could sell gas guzzlers for big profits.
The only engine offered is a big, thirsty 6.2 - liter V8, so it's no surprise that the 2014 SS sedan is subject to a $ 1,300 gas guzzler tax.
Now that the time of big 6,8 and 10 cylinders gas - guzzlers including Jeeps is about to be past I welcome new Patriot's 2.4 liter I - 4 gasoline engine.
The Middle East oil crisis caused many American drivers to rethink their big Detroit gas - guzzlers.
The other reality is that General Motors (one of the biggest makers of gas - guzzlers on the planet) has done an admirable job with its first effort in this sub-segment.
Drivers are more likely to avoid gas guzzlers It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the bigger a vehicle is, the more gas it's going to use.
Vehicle maintenance and retail: Electric cars require much less maintenance than your average gas guzzler, meaning both neighborhood repair shops and big box dealerships may be in trouble.
«It's sad that the former Big Three are whistling past the graveyard so they can continue making gas guzzlers,» said Daniel Becker, director of the Sierra Club's Global Warming and Energy Program and frequent critic of the auto industry.
Our «Big Fix» advocacy video: March 12, 2009: «Converting Gas Guzzlers:» A one - minute and forty - five second video explaining the reason we're working to launch a major effort to build awareness for the opportunity to convert large internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles — what former Intel CEO Andy Grove calls «PSVs» (Pickups, SUVs and Vans) to run partially on electricity.
He and CalCars now work to accelerate oil reductions by more than 50 % in a decade by converting into PHEVs and EVs millions of the biggest gas - guzzlers on our roads.
BMWs are big, aggressive gas - guzzlers, right?
About half of those big gas - guzzlers stay on the road a surprisingly long time: 15 to 35 years.
The biggest item of interest to TreeHuggers is the new Hummer Tax, stolen from the Green Party Handbook - gas guzzlers like the
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