What's your MPG?

[Rev. Rye]

Well, I drive a Hyundai Elantra, and while it supposedly can go up to 33 mpg in the city, in practice, because I have to obey the rules of the road and not get into an accident, I frequently have to wait for long periods of time for the car in front of me to notice that the light has turned green (longest for just one car in front of me is about a minute, and I'm not sure of the biggest number of times I had to watch the light go from green to red in a single stretch of road before I could finally make a turn, but I think it's somewhere between 4 and 7) or waiting to turn on a road that has a bunch of oncoming cars, it's often about half that. And I know this because it has an option to display the MPG on the dash. In fact, last time I checked, it had about 16.7 mpg.