Word: guzzler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guzzler Tax Carter proposed slapping penalty taxes on people who buy big, energy-inefficient cars starting next year. The Senate voted last week to delay the tax to 1980-but to make it practically confiscatory. Its bill would place a stunning $10,000 tax in 1980 on each new car that got less than 16 m.p.g., which would have the same effect as banning production outright...
...tippling to the weekly tierce horse race-force cafes to keep large amounts of coins on hand. Last year two crooks who had stolen $80,000 in one-franc coins tried to convince police that the loot was unrecoverable because they had spent it on that greatest French coin guzzler of all-the pinball machines...
...also buried, several hundred awed spectators looked on as a gray-painted wooden crate, 6 ft. by 8 ft. by 17 ft., was lowered into the ground by a crane. To deter any grave robbers cum 1964 Ferrari buffs, the crate was covered with concrete. And so another gas guzzler bites the dust...
...population control is so important to the future of the earth, why do U.S. citizens get a tax deduction for each new energy guzzler they bring into the world...
...general, Carter would let domestic oil prices rise to world levels, increase prices of newly discovered natural gas by 20% (to approach oil prices), slap a 5¢-per-gal. tax on gasoline each year if conservation goals were not met, and use tax penalties on "gas guzzler" cars and rebates on small cars to encourage purchasers to select energy-efficient autos. To many liberals, this was not going far enough. "Large Chevy owners will now have to switch to small Chevies. I don't consider this a sacrifice," said Tom Quinn, special assistant on environmental protection to California Governor Jerry...