It may be time to unload that chain of gas stations you invested in when Oldsmobile and Pontiacs roamed the highways and byways. General Motors said yesterday that it would produce at least 20 new electric vehicles worldwide by 2023 en route to eliminating the internal combustion engine completely at some unspecified point.

If you think a five-minute air taxi from Times Square to JFK is pie-in-the-sky thinking, how about less than hour from JFK to just about anywhere in the world? Leave it to Elon Musk to suggest that the same rocket technology that purportedly will be taking us to and from Mars in the 2020s can get us from NYC to LAX in 25 minutes.