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New Honda hybrid electric car tops EPA mileage list

...hundreds of 2000 model vehicles. Among the biggest gas guzzlers were the popular large sport utility vehicles, many...than 800 cars on the mileage list were subject to a gas-guzzler tax. ''Choosing the most fuel efficient vehicle within...

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Europeans plead for relief from high gas prices

...Petroleum Exporting Countries to boost production to strike a better balance between supply and fervent demand from the top gas guzzlers in the United States and Japan. ''We still have to pay for supplies in dollars, which is more expensive now due...

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News
Cost of gas distorted by inflation

...Americans scurrying to trade in their sport-utility vehicles. For one, even SUVs are more fuel efficient than the gas guzzlers of early 1970s. According to the Cambridge study, the average driver last year spent about $780 on gasoline in a...

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Business
2001 Honda Civic: A top competitor in a crowded field

...Honda Civic was an easy sale in the early 1970s. American motorists were running out of gas. American vehicles were gas guzzlers. The Civic, introduced in 1972 as the 1973 CVCC (for its Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion engine), was the...

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Vox Pop

...shattering-event. Many people will choose to wrap themselves in flags or patriotic colors. They will fly flags from their SUV-gas guzzler vehicles that keep us reliant on Mideast oil. Instead of this pseudo-patriotism, might I suggest that they commit...

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Opinion
Drivers still seek horsepower, not fuel efficiency

...stuff of daily journalism reinforced by "man-on-the-street" interviews, says people are turning away from gas-guzzlers, having been chastened by gasoline pump prices that are now around $3 a gallon for regular unleaded. That conventional...

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2007 Porsche 911 Turbo exceeds expectations

...the new 911 Turbo gets about 24 miles per gallon on the highway, which means it is a super car sans a super federal gas-guzzler tax. And through a combination of technologies, such as Porsche's patented Variable Turbine Geometry, which more...

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'Now' luxury car comes with a wait

...wheels $6,100. DESTINATION CHARGE: $2,000. GAS GUZZLER TAX: $3,000 The line for this car started forming...The $412,000 base price - including a $3,000 gas-guzzler tax - is merely a starting point. Fully personalized...

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SUVs aren't guzzling but they remain thirsty

...Brad Heavner, director of Environment Maryland, an advocacy group, said the federal law's more lenient approach to gas guzzlers is a good reason to allow the states to act on their own. "What you don't want is an incentive to make and market...

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SUV drivers downshift to Smart cars

...the sport-utility vehicle. And they aren't necessarily going from monster to midget cold turkey; many keep their gas guzzlers and use their fuel-efficient car for city driving. Sean Sarraf, brand manager for the Germantown, Md., Smart...

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