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While some define "any American car made in the world" to be a gas guzzler," that's too easy—and lets foreign auto companies off the hook. This common term essentially came into use—in the US, at least—when "congress established Gas Guzzler Tax provisions in the Energy Tax Act of 1978 to discourage the production and purchase of fuel-inefficient vehicles." However, while the gas guzzler tax applied only to cars (not trucks) the term is most often used today to refer to SUVs and other "light trucks."
Gas guzzler is also used to refer to the humans that drive such highway-clogging, ozone-depleting machine. This facetious list, Top 10 Ways to be a Gas Guzzler, explains why.
Top 10 Ways to be a Gas Guzzler
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