Right now in the US the most fuel efficient car in the Prius at 45 mpg city, 50 hwy. If this sounds pretty good, I'll tell you why it's ridiculous. I tell anyone who will listen, I remember clearly the Geo Metro, when I was in high school. We thought gas was expensive because it was over a dollar. This car made about 20 years ago (!) got 45 mpg city and 50 mpg hwy. How can car companies claim they simply can't make cars more efficient, when equal output was available before they jammed SUVs down our throats. Why does this loser industry get to be bailed out by the government? Where's the innovation? I've been wondering for years: why isn't there diesel hybrids on the market. A normal diesel, not a giant cowboy pickup tested in a mine field...just a car for regular people, gets around 40 mpg. Hybrid technology boosts that mpg considerably, right? Why don't you get my chocolate in your peanut butter, and make this car. I asked a diesel mechanic what kind of gas mileage that could equal, and he said in the range of 80. Better yet, make it a plug in hybrid soit can be partially powered by renewables, domestic coal, nuclear, and hydroelectric power. Better still, make it a BIOdiesel plug in hybrid, then it would never require a drop of petroleum. I just found out that Volkswagen is almost there with a Plug-in hybrid Diesel Golf (not biodiesel but I bet it can be converted), it gets 78 mpg, absolutely crushing the current field. If GM could churn something like that out they deserve a bailout. The American auto industry needs to do the country a service and make a car that will help wean the USA off of it's out of control oil addiction. If they can't do that for the good of the nation which bailed them out they should probably just be replaced by Germans who know how to get shit done.