I guess what offends me about much of this is the following quote from the article:
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“The average driver races from red light to red light with little regard for how much energy they’re consuming. It’s an amazingly antisocial behavior.”
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"Antisocial behavior"? Excuse me? Antisocial behavior is behavior that alienates one from the culture around, behavior that irritates most everybody else, and predisposes them to not want to like you.
Like, just fer instance, DRIVING 55MPH IN TRAFFIC THAT WANTS TO GO 65+MPH.
Like, fer instance, what most people here call "hypermiling". If the average driver is doing it, it's not antisocial. If the average driver is irritated by it, it's antisocial.
The moralizing done here (as if YOU know what is best) is more than a little annoying. Yes, I want to get better mileage. Yes, my driving style is much more conservative than it was at $.999 a gallon. But that's my ethics applied to me, and I'm happy.
But I'm also aware that the world's known oil reserves just keep growing. I don't find any weight in the argument that we are running out of oil. All such arguments are based on flawed use of statistics. In fact, almost all "doom and gloom" futurecasting done in the past 60 years has been provably erroneous.
So knock off the "I can't WAIT to make everybody else drive as slow as I think they should be allowed to go!" It just makes ecomodders sound antisocial.
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'96 Escort LX, now known as "deerslayer"
'84 Merc Grand Marquis, affectionately known as "le barge"
~35,000 mostly 2 lane highway miles a year.
I was born a Rambler man, but with the passing of AMC (sigh), just give me another Ford.
How many kids with A.D.D. does it take to change a light bulb?
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