Sentences with phrase «gallon gasoline»

It will also include a proposal for a 7 cent per gallon gasoline tax increase and a $ 3 fee on every new tire purchase.

First, the latest SUV boom is not the result of last year's sub - $ 2 - per gallon gasoline price plunge.

The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $ 1 per gallon gasoline.

The energy consumption was rated at 40 kWh / 100 miles for combined city / highway driving, corresponding to a fuel economy of 84 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent - MPGe -(2.8 L / 100 km; 101 mpg imp).

What is it: A full - size pickup truck with off - road chops and a 38 - gallon gasoline tank, all from the same folks who build the Prius.

How else to explain why the White House could blame $ 4 / gallon gasoline on the drilling bans supported by conservationists and Democrats — a patent lie — and that more than 50 % of the public would believe it?

Propulsion is by a 4.2 - liter in - line six - cylinder engine, fed by electronic fuel injection from either of two 11.8 - gallon gasoline tanks (selected via a dash switch).

[99] As a result of its improved battery pack, the 2013 model year EPA rating climbed to a combined city / highway fuel economy of 98 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent (2.4 L gasoline equivalent / 100 km; 118 mpg - imp gasoline equivalent).

OUR TAKE: Driving this ostentatious behemoth in a world staring down the barrel of permanent $ 4 - per - gallon gasoline prices feels like being the captain on the bridge of the Titanic.

«But no one is praying for the return of $ 4 a gallon gasoline.»

As demand for Ford's smallest model continues to grow in the face of $ 4 per gallon gasoline, the company is adding shifts and increasing assembly - line speed at its Wayne, Michigan, factory to crank out more examples.

I guess ubiquitous speed cameras and $ 8 - per - gallon gasoline will do that.

$ 4 - per - gallon gasoline is proving to be the magic number that is radically altering America's driving habits.

It's true that VW is late to the compact - SUV market, but as Americans adjust to $ 4 - per - gallon gasoline, I predict that the compact - SUV market will continue to grow, and VW is wise to be in the thick of it with a good entry like the Tiguan.

Based on economics alone, it would take more 120,000 miles (at $ 4 - per - gallon gasoline, and 45/55 percent city / highway driving) to recoup the Hybrid's additional cost.

In addition, in this era of $ 2.50 - per - gallon gasoline, the V - 6 returned only 18 mpg in real - world driving, just 1 or 2 mpg more than we would expect from a V - 8.

Baffling as it is in a country where $ 4.00 per gallon gasoline is the norm, pickup trucks are increasingly called upon to serve double duty as both mobile workstations or tow rigs, and family haulers.

But even after taking credits into account and facing (shudder) $ 5 / gallon gasoline, it's going to take a long time to recoup that initial investment.

Under its five - cycle testing, EPA rated the Mini E at 98 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent (2.4 L / 100 km) combined fuel economy, with a rating of 102 mpg ‑ US (2.3 L / 100 km; 122 mpg ‑ imp) equivalent in city driving and 94 mpg ‑ US (2.5 L / 100 km; 113 mpg ‑ imp) equivalent on highways.

[2] The US Environmental Protection Agency official range is 151 kilometres (94 mi), with an energy consumption of 33 kW · h / 100 miles, and the agency rated the ActiveE's combined fuel economy at 2.3 L / 100 km (102 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent).

The Prius II CNG retains its original 1.5 - liter and 11.9 - gallon gasoline tank.

Owners have a choice between 8 - and 35 - gallon gasoline tanks, which are complemented by two «ultra-strong» CNG tanks mounted in the front of the pickup bed.

Europeans already know the high cost of energy, from taxes, but Americans and others are living in a fantasy land of cheap energy even with four dollar per gallon gasoline.

There are reasons corporations don't like these as much as oil & coal, which bring in more profits, partly from garnering hefty tax - breaks and subsidiies (& I'm not even counting the military expenses of ensuring our supply and flow — which would make a gallon a gasoline skyrocket in price).

Wind - generated electricity to operate cars could cost the equivalent of 80 - cent - per gallon gasoline.

Not only is that amount attractive by Hawaii standards for electricity generation (where imported petroleum produces power at about 22c / kwh), it's also attractive as a transport fuel at about $ 2 a gallon gasoline in hydrogen vehicles.

Simpson - Bowles proposes a 15 cent a gallon gasoline tax hike which not only generates relatively little revenue for its political risk, but singles out the powerful oil lobby.

* In the original June 2005 draft of this paper the reader would have seen an estimate that the cost of powering a hybrid with average (8.5 cents / kwh) residential electricity from the grid would be about one - quarter the cost of powering the same vehicle in its normal operating mode using $ 2 / gallon gasoline.

When one takes into consideration the different efficiencies of liquid - fueled and electric propulsion, then where the rubber meets the road the cost of powering a plug - in hybrid with average - cost residential electricity would be about 40 per cent of the cost of powering the same vehicle with today's approximately $ 2.50 / gallon gasoline, or, said another way, for the consumer to be able to buy fuel in the form of electricity at the equivalent of $ 1 / gallon gasoline.

* Using off - peak power would then equate to being able to buy 25 - to - 50 cent / gallon gasoline.

... the cost of powering a plug - in hybrid with average - cost residential electricity would be about 40 per cent of the cost of powering the same vehicle with today's approximately $ 2.50 / gallon gasoline, or, said another way, for the consumer to be able to buy fuel in the form of electricity at the equivalent of $ 1 / gallon gasoline.

Using off - peak power would then equate to being able to buy 25 - to - 50 cent / gallon gasoline... the possibility of powering one's family vehicle with fuel that can cost as little as one - tenth of today's gasoline (in the U.S. market) should solve rapidly the question whether there would be public interest in and acceptability of plug - in hybrids.

The reason this is important, from their perspective is because today's current crop of hybrids use $ 3 a gallon gasoline to keep their batteries recharged — as well as a small percentage that comes from regenerative braking.

I predict and actually hope for $ 6 - $ 8 - $ 10 a gallon gasoline.