[jyl]

The funny thing is, you could do that drive in a couple different cars today, get 60 mpg all the way, and no bugs in your teeth, a/c, tunes, wear flip-flops, airbags and ABS. Cars have come a long way. In 10 years, I think we'll laugh at how crummy the mpg of the Prius and TDIs were. You know if the US car fleet had the average mpg of the European car fleet, we wouldn't have to mobilize the army every time some Arab country has a snit, and Chavez would be just another hard-luck banana dictator.