[Christ]

I love how everyone all day around here has the "late-for-something" driving style.. even at the times that noone is on the road, you still have some idiot tailing you waiting for the next passing zone.

I personally am not the slowest driver out there, but I do tend to take it easy anymore... I used to do 80+ even on backroads, dirt roads, whatever I was driving on. Lucky I"m not dead, honestly.

I've never had a problem talking to people about conserving fuel, or suggesting ways they could get better gas mileage... but in my hobbies, it's kind of counter-intuitive, since I'm talking to performance enthusiasts, mostly. They WANT to go fast, and don't really care what it takes, energy wise.

Then there are the people that are normally pretty conscious, but they have alot of "just this one time" moments...

Or, like my wife's mom, "It's only $30... it's not that big of a deal." Except when "It's only $30", 5 times a month. That's another $150 a month... don't ask me to pay your bills next week, OK?

I don't have a problem with the way anyone wants to do anything, honestly, my issue comes in when they start complaining about things, but doing nothing about it. OBVIOUSLY, we can't directly control the gas prices... but we can (sort of) control how much we spend on it.

I can't think of how many people I've laughed at (literally, in their face) for complaining about gas prices, then talking about how fast they were going on the way to work that day... or how they only had 1 minute to clock in when they got there, etc.