360 Questions.. pardon my ignorance.

possibly cuz it already had 20 cubes over the 340, and 42 on the 318?
But more likely to keep that girl sucking gas so the oil-barons could keep on getting richer.
My second combo was the 11.3 Scr combo with the Hughes 270/276/110 cam at .028Quench, that with a manual trans geared for 65=1600/ 85=2100, got about double the mpgs that the stock engine did when geared 65= 2500 with an automatic. That sorta revealed to me that something ugly was going on in the world as regards the profits of gasoline.
Even in todays world, it seems no matter what the manufactures do, fuel economy is barely creeping up. The typical engine of the mid 2010s , being a direct-injected, 4-pot, 2.5l, DOHC, VVT, mpfi, engineering marvel with all of 160 hp, still only gets mid to high 30 mpgs.
Whereas I bet most of us can squeeze a 318, to get that economy at a similar cruize-rpm, with nothing but closed chambers, a bit of squeeze, and computerized ignition advance, and still make way more than 160 hp.
So then, how far have we really come in the last 50 years? They're dumbing us down, and we know it.