Improve my gas mileage! That’s the statement that’s been going around since nearly the dawn of the industrial age. Nearly 100 years of just trying to figure out how get further on a gallon of gas.

Many gas mileage devices have been developed over the last 75 years which have nearly doubled the mileage cars now get but progress has been slow. Without question there has been nearly no improvement in gas mileage in nearly 20 years.

Well, time to enter the Auto X Prize competition which is being sponsored the the Progressive auto insurance Co. The first 100 mpg car is the goal and the contest was officially launched in March and you can still get in.

A $10 million dollar prize is up for grabs folks and the first person or company who can demonstrate a 100mpg in cross-country races will take home the prize.

Up for the challenge? The competition races begin sometime in 2009 so if you think you can somehow “improve my gas mileage” it’s time to quit thinking and get building!

Do you think you have what it takes to make your mark in history? So what exactly are the rules to this competition? What is the goal of it all?

First off, the goals are pretty obvious. We need cars that are going to be efficient as well as easy on our environment and we also need in a bad way to get off our oil addiction but most important? Improve my gas mileage, of course!

The winning car will demonstrate an easy concept and something that is simple to understand. Something along the line of a car that you and I could actually work on. Is that even possible now days?

It needs to be a car that will benefit the entire world and as such this will be global competition. Anyone anywhere can enter. No matter where you come from, your brains are welcome.

The car that wins must be something we can all buy. If your idea is still a concept car, that won’t work. It must be ready to be produced.

There are other rules such as independent and non-partisan contestants, an understanding of the emissions, performance, fuel efficiency, ect.

Don’t get hung up on the technicals. If you can build something that you can enter and it is capable of being manufactured then all shade tree mechanics world wide need to get busy!

Imagine the implications of such a contest not only for those who might win but for the entire world at large!

Are you thinking how life could change for you and the world in general as this technology reaches into other industries as well. Things would change on a global scale.

There’s lots more information about this on the net if you know where to start searching so get those fingers and eyeballs working. You never know. Maybe you will be the one to give us all the gas mileage improvement we all really need.