Definitions for gas-guzzler
gas-guz·zler

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1. gas-guzzlernoun

   A motor car that has poor fuel economy.

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1. gas-guzzler

   The fuel economy of an automobile relates distance traveled by a vehicle and the amount of fuel consumed. Consumption can be expressed in terms of volume of fuel to travel a distance, or the distance traveled per unit volume of fuel consumed. Since fuel consumption of vehicles is a significant factor in air pollution, and since importation of motor fuel can be a large part of a nation's foreign trade, many countries impose requirements for fuel economy. Different methods are used to approximate the actual performance of the vehicle. The energy in fuel is required to overcome various losses (wind resistance, tire drag, and others) encountered while propelling the vehicle, and in providing power to vehicle systems such as ignition or air conditioning. Various strategies can be employed to reduce losses at each of the conversions between the chemical energy in the fuel and the kinetic energy of the vehicle. Driver behavior can affect fuel economy; maneuvers such as sudden acceleration and heavy braking waste energy. Electric cars do not directly burn fuel, and so do not have fuel economy per se, but equivalence measures, such as miles per gallon gasoline equivalent have been created to attempt to compare them.

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1. Gas-guzzler

   Gas-guzzler commonly refers to a vehicle that consumes fuel inefficiently. 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. Today the term is often used to refer to SUVs or other semi-large vehicles that qualify as "light trucks". Nevertheless the term extends to all fuel-inefficient vehicles, from antiquated V8 American classics to Italian-bred sports cars. A Lamborghini Murciélago, a Plymouth Roadrunner, and a Hummer H1 might all be classified as gas-guzzlers, though they are very different cars.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gas-guzzler in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gas-guzzler in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of gas-guzzler in a Sentence

1. Barack Obama:

   If you're going out shopping for a new car, don't think it's always going to be this low, because then you'll be surprised and you'll be mad at me later, and I'll be able to say, 'I told you don't get a gas guzzler because gas is going to go back up,'.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gas-Guzzler
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas-Guzzler
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=gas-guzzler