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-{{Short description|Vehicle that consumes lots of fuel}}
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-[[Image:2006 Hummer H3 H1 and H2.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|Vehicles by [[Hummer]] are among the most prominent and most commonly satirized gas-guzzlers.]]
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-[[File:FOB DETROIT-NEW CARS ARE LOADED ONTO RAILROAD CARS AT LASHER AND I-75 - NARA - 549696.jpg|upright=1.35|thumb|New automobiles await delivery in [[Detroit]] at the height of the 'gas-guzzler' market in the U.S. in 1973, before two oil shocks and [[Corporate Average Fuel Economy|CAFE standards]] prompted automakers to switch to more fuel-efficient models.]]
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-The term '''gas-guzzler,''' part of our [[vernacular]] to mean an [[car]] with burns copious and excessive amounts of fuel, came into formal legal usage in the U.S. when Congress established Gas Guzzler Tax provisions in the [[Energy Tax Act]] of 1978 to discourage the production and purchase of fuel-inefficient vehicles.  Fuel efficiency standards were in part driven by the [[Oil embargo 1973|oil embargo of 1973]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Fuel Efficiency Standards Live On After 1973 Oil Embargo |language=en |work=NPR.org |url=https://www.npr.org/2013/10/17/236033141/fuel-efficiency-standards-live-on-after-1973-oil-embargo |access-date=2022-11-26}}</ref>  The gas guzzler tax had applied only to cars (not trucks) and was collected by the [[IRS]].<ref name="EPA history">{{cite web |title=Gas Guzzler Tax |url=https://www3.epa.gov/fueleconomy/guzzler/index.htm |publisher=[[Environmental Protection Agency]] |access-date=3 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804000731/https://www3.epa.gov/fueleconomy/guzzler/index.htm |archive-date=4 August 2016}}</ref>  Other countries have followed suit and introduced their own version of a gas-guzzler tax such as Canada's "green levy".
-=== Energy Tax Act ===
-The US government introduced the Gas Guzzler Tax as a part of the [[Energy Tax Act]]. The tax was introduced to tax the purchase of inefficient vehicles at the same time that Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards were introduced. The Gas Guzzler Tax applies only to vehicles classified as cars, as opposed to light trucks. Since 1991, cars with a combined fuel economy rating under {{convert|17.5|mpgus|L/100 km mpgimp|1|abbr=on}} have been subject to the tax.<ref>https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=43610&id=43679 comparison between automatic and manual Ford Mustang Mach 1 — 2021 model year</ref><ref>https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=40117&id=40067 Ferrari 488 Pista vs. GTB <br> https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=40365&id=40117 Porsche 911 GT2 RS and Ferrari 488 Pista</ref> Light trucks, which includes virtually all sport-utility vehicles, pickup trucks and vans, are not subject to the tax.
-=== Criticism ===
-The primary criticism of the tax is that it does not apply to light trucks.  As a result, relatively few vehicles are subject to the tax.  When the tax was first introduced, light trucks were viewed as primarily utilitarian work related vehicles.  With the shift towards consumer uses for SUVs and pickups, as automakers discontinued the large body-on-frame [[Sedan (automobile)|sedan]]s and [[station wagon]]s long preferred by many Americans to meet the CAFE standards the original rationale for exempting trucks is considered invalid by critics of the current tax law.  Many Americans, especially [[soccer mom]]s, who once drove the large cars and station wagons that were classified as gas guzzlers switched to equally inefficient upscale four-door [[SUV]]s, [[Crossover (automobile)|crossovers]], or [[minivan]]s that are classified as light trucks and therefore exempt from the tax.
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