GM's sales have been propelled almost entirely by gas-guzzling pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles.
If fuel cells flop, GM will find it all the harder to defend its gas-guzzling SUVs.
And Detroit, which once piled up huge profits in gas-guzzling SUVs and pickups, will have to adjust.
It would boost firms hit by higher energy prices, such as the struggling manufacturers of gas-guzzling cars.
This includes promoting electric and hybrid cars as an alternative to gas-guzzling cars idling on clogged city roads.
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It is a cleaner, more fuel-efficient engine than the gas-guzzling original, which the carmaker stopped producing in 1971.
Sales of its high-margin, gas-guzzling SUVs, like the Explorer and Expedition, are off 28% so far this year.
As the planet warms, thanks to our gas-guzzling cars and power-producing factories, the polar bear's frozen habitat is disappearing.
At least for some gas-guzzling industries, the fear of exorbitant prices seems justified.
Instead of buying a new gas-guzzling vehicle, convert an old diesel car to run on either biodiesel or vegetable oil.
The 1991 Ford Explorer reminds us of the days, not so long ago, when gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles ruled the American road.
Despite the push in green cars in previous years following government subsidies for cleaner vehicles, this year's focus turned to gas-guzzling SUVs.
The trio are certainly not alone in their quest to find green alternatives to the gas-guzzling cargo vessels of the 21st century.
And Chrysler is overly dependent on gas-guzzling trucks: 68% of its U.S. sales are pickups, minivans and SUVs, compared with 60% at GM.
The number of gas-guzzling SUVs has grown steadily, from 2 percent of the market in 1975 to more than 25 percent in 2003.
In the meantime, the attention-grabbing electric Rolls-Royce might earn its spurs as an effective marketing vehicle that powers the sales of its "gas-guzzling" cousin.
William Clay Ford Jr. thinks that he can run a car company that produces gas-guzzling sport utilities vehicles and still be a committed environmentalist.
Sichuan Tengzhong, a private Chinese company, is to buy the division of General Motors, a beleaguered American carmaker, that makes the Hummer, a gas-guzzling hulk.
They tend to have the longest commutes in older, gas-guzzling cars.
Among the next newspapers to go, experts say, are major metropolitan dailies relying on an expensive business model that requires costly newsprint consumption and gas-guzzling deliveries.
An eco-friendly hybrid car, a gas-guzzling high-performance motor or would he stick with the greenest and most reliable form of transport on offer - his feet?
And one of the biggest gas-guzzling factors is in-flight weight.
At the tail end of the global economic boom, when concerns about the environment were widely voiced, large "gas-guzzling" sports utility vehicles (SUVs) became objects of loathing and ridicule.
Planes cause at least twice as much pollution per passenger mile as a typical private car but the day when even gas-guzzling private cars will require carbon allowances is drawing closer.
Chrysler has plenty of gas-guzzling SUVs on the way, too, including two- and four-door versions of the iconic Jeep Wrangler, an all-new Dodge Nitro sport utility and the even larger Chrysler Aspen.
But the Asian producers started making more SUVs and pickup trucks in their North American factories to escape the duties, and then a rising oil-price led many motorists to abandon these often gas-guzzling vehicles.
In another example, General Motors went bankrupt and had to be bailed out by the federal government because they bought into the conventional wisdom that Americans would always want big, gas-guzzling cars (among other outdated beliefs).
Carbon offsetting allows consumers to quell their eco-guilt even as they jet off to distant climes on holiday, and drivers of sports-utility vehicles to argue that they have atoned for the emissions produced by their gas-guzzling cars.
In 2008, while automakers plodded along with the same old gas-guzzling models as the price at the pump hit record highs, American consumers scrambled for more fuel-efficient vehicles and left the gas-guzzlers to collect dust on the showroom floor.
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All of Kathmandu's taxis are compact, fuel-efficient Maruti cars imported from India. (Fuel shortage or no, Chaudhary prefers to be chauffeur-driven in a gas-guzzling Suzuki SUV to his seven-story group headquarters on the site of a former electronics factory).
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