Originally Posted by JustAFriend

There have been cars built that get over 2,000mpg..... BUT THEY ARE IMPRACTICAL.

You cannot use them for day-to-day driving and they would not meet the safety, licensing or emissions laws. They would also not hold up for more than a few hours or days on the road before falling apart.

Engineering 2,000lbs of metal into a vehicle that gives you living-room comfort, reasonable crash protection, emission controls and can last over 100,000miles is FAR TOUGHER than most people realize....

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HERE'S THE SOLUTION TO THE GAS CRISIS (and you won't like it):

1. Ban all speeds above 50mph.
(I don't mean give tickets - I mean make it physically impossible to make a car go over the speed limit. This can easily be done through the car's computers - see #6 below... if you want to get somewhere faster, take the train or plane. Police, military and emergency vehicles would be exempted of course.)

2. Forbid car makers from producing cars that can go 0-60mph in less than 30 seconds.

3. Ban NASCAR. Ban INDY. Ban all televised and live auto racing.

4. Extend the traffic laws to Hollywood.... no more 'Fast and the Furious'-type movies.

5. Slap a $200million fine for any car company to advertise cars using any more than a still photo.
Shots of cars weaving through traffic NASCAR-style or sliding through turns included.

6. Network all vehicles' computers to enforce traffic control.
(this one's coming soon anyway kiddies... no need for police chases when they can just turn a perp's vehicle OFF.)

7. Enforce the traffic laws HEAVILY. No more 'comedy traffic schools', no traffic lawyers, no weaseling out of it.

8. Sliding scales for traffic fines based on income - if a richer violates a traffic law its no pocket-change fine but a heavy PERCENTAGE of his income/wealth with no upper limit. Your $200,000/year lawyer will start to think when he's finally looking at a $50,000 ticket.