Sentences with phrase «guzzling vehicles»

This is because many Americans still drive oversized gas - guzzling vehicles, and therefore have a lot more ability to reduce their fuel consumption by greater efficiency (or smaller vehicles), while Europeans already drive smaller and more efficient vehicles (due to heavy motor fuel taxes), so would have extreme difficulty reducing consumption still further in response to the appeals of climate campaigners.

They drive far more miles annually, use less public transportation, and buy larger, gas - guzzling vehicles.

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!

Gas - guzzling vehicles and high energy consumption especially during the hot summer months contribute to the state's status as our most polluting state.

Would you encourage people to buy gas guzzling vehicles and get out on the road and drive to save the planet?

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

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

Negotiating with the Obama administration in 2009 on the «cash for clunkers» program, which gave Americans vouchers to trade in their old, gas - guzzling vehicles for new, efficient models.

Driverless technology might get people who don't usually drive in gas - guzzling vehicles.

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.

It really does begin with our excessive spending on unnecessary things such as huge houses, gas - guzzling vehicles and lots of «pretty» and «I want» things that we can't really afford.

The only problem is, if we have a gas - guzzling vehicle, costs will add up extremely quickly.

However, if your financial situation has changed and you need to part ways with your «upside down» gas guzzling vehicle, here is how to do it.

Nobody would by a gas guzzling vehicle that they didn't need.

It's pointless designing an organic garden and then buying a gas guzzling vehicle or building a house from concrete and steel when we can use local materials with less embodied energy.

Not exact matches

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.

The most popular vehicles are of the gas - guzzling sort: SUVs, minivans and pickup trucks, often with adjusted seats.

Instead the Tories chose to attack the increases in vehicle excise duty (VED) punishing «gas - guzzling» vehicles which are not environmentally friendly.

Here are some tips for turning even the most fuel - efficient vehicle they can force us to drive into a gas - guzzling petroleum pig:

Still, fueling a vehicle like the Clarity emits less than half the CO2 released by its gas - guzzling counterparts for a given distance, says John Turner of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.

«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.

The newest and best addition is the ability to combine two vehicles into a new mass - murdering gas - guzzling hunk - «o - junk.

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.

Mated to an 8 - speed automatic, it guzzles regular grade gas and in our week of testing, achieved 31 MPG in mixed city and highway driving — unbelievable for a vehicle of this size with AWD.

As the former owner of a gas - guzzling Denali, I welcome any news to up the fuel economy of these great, but hungry, vehicles.

The Lexus GX460 is a luxury crossover sport utility vehicle introduced in 2010 as a replacement for Lexus's capable but gas - guzzling truck - based SUV, the GX470.

The universe of sport utility vehicles — once rife with gas - guzzling land yachts — has expanded to include wildly popular compact and even subcompact models whose fuel economy has jumped by up to a third in less than a decade.

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..

Not to be left out, there's the XC, Road Tour and C2 Compact / Cycle models, meant for lighter, smaller vehicles; each can be modified to suit individual needs — great for people who want to go off the beaten track but still bring a bit of home comforts with them, without guzzling expensive fuel.

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?

And the emergence of electric vehicles is encouraged by government with apparent acclaim from science, yet this also perpetuates energy guzzling under the pretense of efficiency of electric power.

Six years earlier, the former Vancouver mayor had terminated his predecessor's climate change program within months of taking power, created a tax loophole for gas - guzzling luxury vehicles and reduced provincial fuel taxes.

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.

More recently, however, fuel economy has stagnated and even regressed at times as automakers have peddled ever larger, more powerful and more gas - guzzling sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks to Americans.

Second, higher gas taxes make alternative fuel - efficient vehicles like hybrids and electric plug - ins even more attractive compared to gas - guzzling engines.

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.

Falling sales of the the military - derived vehicle, which has become synonymous with gas - guzzling excess, have prompted GM to put the Hummer brand up for sale.

Fossil fuels deplete our resources and contribute to pollution — and many insurers offer discounts for vehicles that don't gas guzzle.

The latest lines of auto hybrids, diesels, and compact vehicles will allow you to go farther with less gas and say goodbye to your gas - guzzling days.