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Let's take the perfect car: A 2000 Civic HX manual. What would it take to make that car get 54 MPG? I honestly do not know, but I averaged 44 MPG on a teenage car with 200,000 miles. We have members getting that.
Done!
But wait! We can't have nice things! Nobody is laughing about the nitrous oxide lean burn makes! Let's use complicated schemes like hybridization and other modern gimmicks! How much would it cost to make a car like a Civic or Accord get 54 MPG? Five or ten thousand, if people do not drive like idiots.
Well, I guess that we are doomed.
People do not want $20 - 30,000 cars that get 54 MPG, they want $50,000 trucks that get 18 MPG.
How did we become the dominant species?
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