Does triple-digit gas mileage sound like a dream to you? Does the ubiquity of gas-guzzling Hummers and SUVs look like anything less than a nightmare? Well, wake up and smell the carbon monoxide.
I'm just kidding, of course. Carbon monoxide is strictly odorless. But our failure to develop more fuel-efficient vehicles over the last three decades -- while flooding the market with less efficient cars (and flooding our seas with oil spills) -- truly stinks.
In 1984 Craig Henderson and Bill Green built a car that got over 100 miles per gallon. And this year Henderson drove his new car from Canada to Mexico on a single tank of gas. He averaged almost 120 mpg.
Read the whole story here!
Federal law now requires automakers to average 35 mpg by 2016. Should we be impressed? By now we should be thinking about new cars that will break the 200 mpg barrier. There's a idea worth dreaming about.
In the meantime, you can petition the EPA to make 60 mpg vehicles the new standard 2025!
Enjoy our song of the day from this once popular quartet from Liverpool.
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