We all want to improve our fuel economy and encourage others to also do the same.
I'm talking about setting a good example to the public and avoiding bad PR.
Last summer, many were intentionally spreading myths to discredit hypermilers. It's copycat reporting, bad reporting, and even slander.
Check out
this link - it's Google: "hypermilers drafting"
A year ago, there was a hypermiling event in Washington state. A Channel 5 reporter did a 90 second shoot of Wayne Gerdes - that part was fair, dispassionate. Afterwards, the reporter added another 90 seconds throwing Wayne under the bus...had a trooper who probably had just heard of the term making this sound like this is more dangerous than DUIs. That's just a worst case of reporting.
Brief tangent: a word for "stingy" is taboo...it sounds too much like the N-word...has nothing to do with a serious racial slur, but that's what people think so it's not used anymore. Drafting is another such casualty.
You may be safely behind someone and benefit from their lead, but I avoid the use of the term drafting as the propaganda implies it driving too close to see the traffic or to stop safely, even in this instance. Call it surfing or something else.