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Americans often speak of the $100 hamburger, the food of choice at some airport café a Cessna hour away from one’s home base.  The trip to eat and return often accounts for that sum, with avgas stretching toward $6.00 per gallon.  Imagine, then, making a coast-to-coast trip across one’s native land, surveying a dazzling array of scenic delights and partaking of French cuisine along the way – all for not quite that amount. Europe abounds in small, turbocharged Diesel automobiles, sometimes zippy little things that exhibit excellent fuel economy.  Many of these cars strive for the “3-liter” designation – the ability to drive 100 kilometers (62 miles) on three liters of fuel (78.4 miles per gallon) and the European Union is pushing …