Reply #52: This is a little off topic, but you have an excellent observation...

[KansDem]

The less mileage your car gets, the more you should pay for gasoline...

Back in the 1970s I thought one way to address the "energy crisis" would be to charge $0.10 per gallon per cylinder (don't forget; this was mid-1970s when gas was around 60 cents a gallon). With this approach, motorcycles in general would have paid 20 cents a gallon, VWs and smaller cars 40 cents, mid-sized 60 cents, and the huge, gas-guzzling luxury cars $1.20. I thought this the best way to conserve and reward those of us who drove smaller, fuel-efficient cars. I proposed my idea on occasion to friends and co-workers at the time, and the response was lukewarm to outright condemnation. "You can't punish those drivers with large cars just because they were 'successful' in business!" was the most common rejoinder.

I still think it's a good idea, although now the price would be something like 40 cents a gallon per cylinder.