page_title: Gas-guzzler
hierarchical_section_title: Gas-guzzler
caption_attribution_description: 2006 Hummer lineup (L-R) H3, H1, and H2
context_page_description: A gas-guzzler, in informal language, is a vehicle that is perceived to consume a lot of fuel.
  The term originally came into use in the US when Congress established Gas Guzzler Tax provisions in the Energy Tax Act of 1978 to discourage the production and purchase of fuel-inefficient vehicles. The gas guzzler tax had applied only to cars and was collected by the IRS. Other countries have followed suit and introduced their own version of a gas-guzzler tax such as Canada's "green levy".
context_section_description: A gas-guzzler, in informal language, is a vehicle that is perceived to consume a lot of fuel.
  The term originally came into use in the US when Congress established Gas Guzzler Tax provisions in the Energy Tax Act of 1978 to discourage the production and purchase of fuel-inefficient vehicles. The gas guzzler tax had applied only to cars (not trucks) and was collected by the IRS.  Other countries have followed suit and introduced their own version of a gas-guzzler tax such as Canada's "green levy".
caption: Vehicles by Hummer are among the most prominent and most commonly satirized gas-guzzlers.
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