This is absurd.  The Ford Model T got 13-21 mpg.  That was in 1908.  One hundred years later vehicles average 30 mpg.  I have a hard time believing that all the brainiac scientists out there aren’t smart enough to figure out how to get at least 80-100 miles to a gallon.

Take the computer.  The first computer I remember having had a 286 processor with 1mhz clock speed.  22 years later I’m running a dual-core 2.2ghz processor.  That’s a 219,900% percent increase (439,900% if you count both cores).  Over 100 years fuel efficiency has increased by 43-131%.

In every other technological arena huge advancements have been made in the last 100 years.  Why not fuel?  Something’s awry here.

Maybe Lee Raymond will give me some of his $141,000 a day.