The whole oil/auto industry is a sham of fixed pricing and fixed technology designed to make a select few individuals obscenely rich.

The current world record for most efficient automobile is over 12,000 miles per gallon.
Let me repeat that, 12 THOUSAND MILES per gallon!
(Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-Marathon)
And cars routinely turn in this type of mileage year after year.

Granted, they're ass ugly, highly impractical vehicles that run at speeds around 35 mph; but even so, it shouldn't be hard to give me, John Q. Citizen, something pretty that runs at freeway speeds and gets at least 1/10th of that fuel efficiency, say a thousand miles per gallon. I really don't think that is asking too much.

Anyone that doesn't think we are being ass raped with a baseball bat on a daily basis by these two industries is in an extreme state of denial.