Caught a news item on CNN yesterday where an electrical engineer in his day job - took a Prius hybrid and upped the mileage to 80 (norm I believe was around 40-45 mpg for hte Prius).

80 ... 250 ... better than the hi-20's I get now. At $1.004 to $1.039 per liter ($3.815 - $3.948 per US gal) ....... fishing trips are getting closer to home.

taxes ... hmms ...... thats a whole lotta something else I can ramble on. Suffice to say - they'll raise them as they wish.