My 1998 Toyota Camry gets 32MPG (city or highway, thanks to shutting off the engine at red lights), and it is a lot more practical and safer than a '72 Beetle.
I completely agree that modern cars are too large and over powered, but really old cars are not the answer.
Properly small cars (like are seen in Europe) with modern engines are a much better idea. By far the biggest problem is that gas is too cheap to get people out of their massive SUVs and into cars that meet the needs of everyday driving, not off-roading and track days.
100g is metric. If your toothpaste tube was in imperial, it would be 3.53oz.
Mac OS 10.6 most certainly does have support for H.264 out of the box, and I imagine that 10.5 and possibly earlier versions have it as well.
I'm not usually too keen of what MS do, but I think that using the OS's native codecs makes a lot of sense, and Mozilla really need to get off their high horse and implement native plugin use for all OSes that they support. A plugin is not ideal, but it's a hell of a lot better than not having H.264 support in Firefox, hopefully Mozilla will look at this and decide it is something that should be built in to their browser.
"A car is just a big purse on wheels." -- Johanna Reynolds