[do the dhue]

OK, here is the way I see it. We have advanced technologically with leaps and bounds. Look at how far computers have advanced in the last thirty years. Then why is it my gas mileage is about the same as it was 30 years ago. What? We couldn't come up with the technology in the last thirty years or so to increase gas mileage some?

Unless you can come up with something better then what I presented, the burden is on you.

[FreedomPoster]

Cars do get better gas mileage then 30 years ago, and it’s absurd to think otherwise. A typical late-70’s GM V8 car was getting about 10-12 mpg. Additionally cars pollute much less today, and have hugely better performance, so perhaps your “mileage is about the same” isn’t quite apples-to-apples.

Engine performance improvements have largely gone towards HP and torque, and not MPG, because that sells cars. If you don’t believe me, go look at 0-60 times for the average car then, versus now.

And you still fail Logic 101. There is never a burden to prove a negative, which you are still demanding.

[wendy1946]

One word which never comes up in discussions of cars is “weight”. The small cars of today are generally around a thousand pounds heavier than those of 1965. Really hard to like that in our present age of miracle materials.