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User Comment: perhaps the gas guzler tax needs a page of its own with specific tax info.

User Question: What is the gas guzzler tax based on EPA wise? Is it based on the highway rating, city rating, or the two averaged?

The article now answers the second question; it's a weighted average. As for the first question, Wikipedia does not make value judgements. -- Beland 21:16, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious 1973 claim

The article claims this 1979 law was in response to the 1973 energy crisis, not the 1979 energy crisis one. What evidence is there for that? -- Beland 21:16, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please read this report: Lazzari, Salvatore; "Energy Tax Policy", Congressional Research Service of The Library of Congress, Updated April 22, 2005; page 6. -- Thanks, CZmarlin 23:20, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Expansion request

What portions of this law are still in effect? Did they have an expiration date? -- Beland 21:16, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

time travel?

The article states that an act passed in 1978 was in response to the 1979 Iranian revolution. Was it perhaps in response to the unrest that led up to the revolution, or was the revolution irrelevant? LachlanA 17:35, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

6,000 pound limit

Is the 6,000 pound limit for a vehicle's empty weight or it's gross vehicle weight? These numbers differ wildly as a gross vehicle weight is the maximum weight of the vehicle, passengers, cargo, and trailer allowable. The reason I ask is that the claim about the 6,000 pound limit encouraging the use of SUVs is almost entirely inaccurate if it refers to empty weight. The only trucks/SUVs I can think of that are over 3 tons are the Hummer H1 and H2, and probably the higher Ford SuperDuty series. I can't think of any passenger cars at all weighing that much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.9.205.47 (talk) 00:08, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Formula inaccurate?

Either I'm missing something or the formula listed for "Uncorrected MPG" is wrong. I'm not sure what that formula is supposed to represent, but when I input the MPG ratings for my car (16 city, 21 highway), it gave me a result that was higher than either of my two inputs (result was 21.14). Is the formula wrong or am I just misinterpreting what it means? I know it says "Uncorrected," but I don't understand why it would give me a number outside the range of the two inputs. The article implies that the uncorrected MPG would just be the overall combined MPG resulting from 55% city and 45% highway driving, which I think would be 1/(.55/CityMPG + .45/HighwayMPG). For my vehicle, that would give a result of 17.92 MPG combined. Am I wrong here? Can someone provide a source for the equation currently listed? I may be looking in all the wrong places, but I can't find the formula anywhere except in this article. Thanks! -- Nomad84 (talk) 22:33, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, this formula seems wrong. For one, the use of 1/(...) as a compound fraction can be simplified with basic algebra. The addition of a constant at the end also strikes me as odd. 173.52.4.231 (talk) 19:17, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]