It hopes to make up lost guzzler profits by loading the little cars up with options.
America no longer has a Hummer economy (General Motors is considering selling off the gas guzzler).
Drive an all-electric car and you'd, in effect, collect cash from gas-guzzler lovers.
"The whole point is to take a gas guzzler off the road and replace it with a newer, more fuel efficient model, " Wood said.
The Green party promised to introduce a higher "gas guzzler" charge for the most polluting vehicles, and a new congestion charge for Heathrow airport.
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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Volkswagen AG's Audi brand says none of its high-performance RS or S models, except the R8 sports car, is now subject to a guzzler penalty.
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%.
This creates a huge problem, as any international treaty hoping to tackle this most international of problems must (in the long run, at least) include the United States, the world's biggest energy guzzler.
Let's support this program by encouraging our friends and neighbors to finally retire that guzzler and help the country with the purchase of a cleaner, lower maintenance car for the future.
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Furthermore, GM's European Opel unit, which failed to obtain a viable bidder or a bailout from the German government, remains a cash-guzzler, having lost over a billion dollars since the company emerged from bankruptcy last year.
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.
"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.
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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