> One of those secondhand buyers, 27-years-old financial consultant Anders Langset, said a regular car with similar performance and engine size could have cost him up to 2 million crowns ($330,000) because of the punitive taxes Norway’s government levies on cars with big, gas-guzzling engines.

Wow, if that's correct, then good on both the government and people for trying to move in the direction of gasoline independence.

I guess in Canada and the US we are too intertwined with the car industry to do something similar.