20 mpg is shameful. I regularly got around 32 mpg in my 1985 Celica. In 1992, after the car had aged, and had not been maintained entirely perfectly. Here we are decades later talking about 20 mpg being "not too bad". Makes me ill.

Rather than fucking around with flying cars, I would really like to see some real attention paid to developing alternatives that might stand some chance of softening the blow when we get past peak oil production. But no, we seem determined to find more ingeneous ways to consume a non-renewable, clearly finite, resource.