GAS GUZZLER TAX
\ɡˈas ɡˈʌzlə tˈaks], \ɡˈas ɡˈʌzlə tˈaks], \ɡ_ˈa_s ɡ_ˈʌ_z_l_ə t_ˈa_k_s]\
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Tax on vehicle total purchase price if fuel efficiency is less than 22.5 miles per gallon. Typically paid by the automobile manufacturer or importing dealership. Likely passed on to the buyer somehow. National Energy Act initiated this tax.
By Henry Campbell Black
Word of the day
basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).