I'll withhold judgement on the disrespect thing for the moment, but you're loking like a hater.
Read my little story again and you'll see what a complete meathead this guy was. He was either on the gas or the brakes the whole time because of his impatience, but he did this through two perfectly good passing zones without bothering to pass me until the third one. When he did pass it wasn't the simple proceeding on his way like most people would do, it was with a gratuitous amount of gas and downshifting of his automatic. Kind of silly, when you consider that he could have already been past me miles earlier if he had only noticed all those dotted lines back there.
Do some reading in the aero section- it turns out that dropping your tailgate is bad for FE. Yes it lowers the frontal area of your rear end, but it makes the truck's overall shape less efficient. Now there's nothing dumb about getting that wrong, but it shows that he had FE in the back of his head.. while abusing the throttle and brakes and having no concept of how to pass somebody. He wasn't in a hurry, he was in a coma.
And yes, you're missing something on gas prices:
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