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What is really funny is these arguments go on within a site dedicated to people getting good gas mileage.
No one thing or person is perfect. You have to be wasteful somewhere, even if it ends up being your time. So I don't see how people can make such definite judgments of other people.
And arguments cannot be so simple. Speed kills is not something that can be proven by itself. Just like going slower will always yield better gas mileage. There are checks and balances to all of it.
When it comes to speed limits, research & just plain common sense shows that highways are much safer places to drive than surface streets. They carry much more traffic with a lot less mortalities per vehicle than anywhere else. Higher speed limits lead to more people on the highway, artificially low speed limits on interstates lead to a lot more people going faster on surface streets like 2 lane highways = many many more deaths at intersections, blind crests, hills, etc. So, in this particular instance, I say go with what is overall safer: higher speed limits on highways.
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