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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
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the lack of real fuel sippers here is due more to marketing decisions by the mfgrs. than our government.
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Here in Northern Europe it is totally the other way round. In most countries heavy fuel users are not only taxed at the fuel pump but they are also being subjected to heavier annual road taxes.
If you drive something like a VW Passat here in Holland with an LPG conversion or a diesel engine you could be paying about 1500 euros per year in road tax - and at that point you haven't gone anywhere... whereas if you drive a Citroen C1 (stupid little thing) then you don't have to pay any road tax (until 2014).
Furthermore at the point of purchase for a new car you'd have to pay about 40% BPM tax on top of the new price for the VW and 0% BPM on the C1...
Fuel sippers are big business over here - whether they are able to achieve the extraordinary mpg they are meant to do or not.