America no longer has a Hummer economy (General Motors is considering selling off the gas guzzler).

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"The whole point is to take a gas guzzler off the road and replace it with a newer, more fuel efficient model, " Wood said.

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The Green party promised to introduce a higher "gas guzzler" charge for the most polluting vehicles, and a new congestion charge for Heathrow airport.

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When we engaged the engine, the Energi felt just like any other gas guzzler out there, with a roar and rumble familiar to most drivers.

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"It is the worst gas guzzler I have owned since a 1976 Ford Elite, " he lamented of the Honda Motor (nyse: HMC - news - people ) car in an e-mail to the Bluewater Network, a San Francisco-based environmental advocacy group.

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Drive an all-electric car and you'd, in effect, collect cash from gas-guzzler lovers.

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For Ford, the Explorer is down 25%, Expedition is down 27% and Excursion, the massive gas-guzzler nicknamed the Ford Valdez by environmentalists, is down 30%.

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That would certainly be a better insurance policy for America, the world's biggest gas-guzzler, than drilling in pristine parts of Alaska for a small amount of expensive oil that could not reach the market for nearly a decade.

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And while the average car made today is more of a gas-sipper than a guzzler, 54.5 is still a long way off: The average fuel economy of passenger vehicles sold in the United States averaged 33.8 mpg as of October, up from 24.7 in 2002 and 27.1 in 2008.

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