Sentences with phrase «gas your car guzzles»

Sure, gas prices have dropped, but so has the amount of gas your car guzzles.

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«If everyone in China has a gas - guzzling car, we'll have oil at $ 10 per gallon and enormous pollution,» he observes.

If you do have to go, try not to take the biggest gas - guzzling off - road car in your car park for a trip down the freeway.

The crossover would add to Mercedes's growing line of lucrative top - end vehicles, such as this year's gas - guzzling AMG GT four - door coupe, as the world's biggest luxury - car maker seeks revenue to finance its expensive shift to battery technology.

If there is a God up there, he's got to look down at those praying, then driving away in their gas - guzzling American cars, and wonder how he provided such a capable brain but why so many refuse to use it.

We did this as a society driving big gas guzzling cars, investors investing to get money at ever one else's expense.

The wealthiest Americans and the biggest corporations would share the tax burden with those (including many union members) who enjoy the most generous employer - provided health plans and those (including inner - city residents with suburban jobs) who commute long distances in gas - guzzling cars.

[90] In this regard, trappers are no different than people who avoid replacing their gas guzzling cars with more efficient hybrids.

The question of whether or not to impose green taxes on gas guzzling cars caused division in Westminster again today, with three members of an environmental commission launching a minority report calling the idea «retrospective taxation» while the rest of the committee called for more radical proposals.

The government must impose higher taxes on gas - guzzling cars and on flights to cut carbon emissions, MPs warn today.

Osborne believes that two factors have made it more difficult to sell them: the row over the government's plan to increase car tax on gas - guzzling vehicles, which he believes has given such taxes a bad name because these are to apply retrospectively; and the overall economic downturn.

AUSTIN, Texas — To reduce your impact on air quality, you might expect to trade in your gas - guzzling clunker of a car — but you can also unplug those air fresheners.

In 1980 ads for the compact Ford Escort boasted a higher gas mileage rating than smaller cars like the Volkswagen Rabbit; 20 years later, gas - guzzling SUVs were racing through the pages of Discover instead.

Nissan and Toyota are developing special all - electric versions of luxury cars, the gas - guzzling versions of which are popular among government officials.

«We can think of one blazar class as a gas - guzzling car and the other as an energy - efficient electric vehicle,» study lead researcher Marco Ajello, an astrophysicist at Clemson University in South Carolina, said in a statement.

And with Smart Cars, especially the yellow ones, you have the perfect combination of efficiency, function and a funky look, to offset the ugly, gas guzzling SVU's.

I had negative equity in my vehicle and he worked with me to find a car that would be better than my gas guzzling truck.

Fifty years from now, cultural historians trying to understand the twilight years of the gas - guzzling SUV will ask themselves a series of questions: What were auto companies thinking when they created enormous cars with enormous engines that were destined for a life of traffic jams?

The good news is that air is free, and that means that if you can make better combustion by leaning heavier on the air usage than gas guzzling, then you've just cracked the code of the modern muscle car.

Many of us have a mindset that big and luxurious cars are expensive to run on a daily basis because of their gas guzzling... Read More

Not everyone who might really enjoy owning a high performance GT car wants or needs a more expensive gas guzzling supercharged monster, the LT1 is suitably ferocious and happily quite efficient.

The GTO lasted until 1975, when spiraling fuel costs killed the demand for high - performance, gas - guzzling cars.

Instead, domestic automakers built muscle cars - small and mid-size coupes with big, gas - guzzling V - 8 engines, such as Pontiac's GTO and Ford's Shelby Mustang.

It's «green»: We put green in parenthesis because it's still a gas - guzzling sports car, powered by a V8 engine, to some extent.

Upside, you have a dangerous, gas guzzling, cute as heck car...

Family cars have undergone a great deal of change over the past decades, from massive wagons, to minivans, to gas guzzling SUVs, and now to crossovers.

Back then, we had dial phones, gas - guzzling cars, dress codes, smoking on airplanes, and no computers smaller than a medium - sized room.

That's a boon for big shoppers, car commuters and owners of gas - guzzling vehicles.

«We got rid of the giant gas - guzzling SUV and bought a small car that we shared until we were able to buy another car with cash,» said Mary.

That's a boon for big shoppers, car commuters and owners of gas - guzzling vehicles.

Then add in an immense roster of cars, a fantastic soundtrack and the kind of spectacle gas - guzzling gamers crave, and you have one of the best and most well - rounded racing games in recent memory.

Some people own bicycles, some own little 2 seater sports cars, some own environmentally friendly vehicles, some own 4 door sedans, some own Monster Trucks, some own Multi-million dollar gas guzzling R.V.'s..

I know him well enough to understand his real motive — he's a car nut, drives a big gas - guzzling jeep, drives hundreds of unnecessary miles every week just for recreation.

If you need to drive, why not sign up to an electric vehicle sharing scheme like Autolib, Cummunauto, as a way of helping limit the number of gas - guzzling cars on the roads?

This relative cheapness of electric cars in Norway is in sharp contrast to the rest of Europe, where EVs tend to cost more than their gas - guzzling counterparts.

From producing gas - guzzling cars to building more coal - fired power plants, to creating toxic waste disasters and simply maintaining our dependence on fossil fuels — are the members of USCAP really leading the pack?

They also shed their gas guzzling limo's for hip electric cars provided by Global Green USA... including the new Tesla Roadster that does 0 - 60 in four seconds!

Gas - guzzling SUVs need to get traded in for new low - carbon electric cars.

When EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that his agency plans to roll back fuel efficiency and emissions standards for cars and light trucks, some observers saw it as a win for the auto industry and for consumers eager to purchase gas - guzzling SUVs and pickup trucks.

I am not completely discounting this being a possible necessary govt role because what happens if a sizeable proportion of people are rich enough and want to retain use of gas guzzling muscle ICE cars as status symbols despite high carbon taxes while it also becomes clear we need to get to zero net emissions?

They offered Mr Barroso a shame award for driving a gas guzzling car and for disregarding the need to set binding fuel efficiency standards for cars sold in Europe.

The truth is, we can get the tens of millions of drivers out of their gas - guzzling cars and into clean, electric vehicles — and probably sooner and more affordably than you might think.

This will make big heavy gas - guzzling cars unviable.

So the new hybrides are offering super power cars where the electric function extends the power performance of their gas guzzling Vx engines.

Hopefully, they will make enough shoddy electric cars to offset the gas guzzling vehicles they actually make really, really well - full size trucks and SUV's!

The report says gas - guzzling SUVs will soon be the main source of CO2 emissions from U.S. autos, because in 2002 they overtook small cars in market share.

Yet 12 years later, Americans are still buying gas guzzling trucks and SUVs, while hybrid and electric vehicles account for just 3 % of new car sales.

How can we trust adults who don't understand the impact of their gas - guzzling family car on the planet or that feeding their kids junk food is leading to an obesity epidemic?

Next up, Brazil, a land of cars running on flex fuels using sugarcane ethanol; then it's on to the gas - guzzling city of Houston, which under the leadership of Mayor Annise Parker is working to support e-vehicles and get fifty percent of its power from wind by 2030.

The NASCAR superstars will still be driving their gas - guzzling Impalas in races, but they did take part in the Chevrolet Volt Homecoming Parade down Detroit's Woodward Avenue on August 18, where Chevy pitched the Volt as its new «classic car.»