Posted on 06/27/2007 1:43:32 PM PDT by Sopater
Maybe they just want to get where they’re going more quickly.
“J.A. Tosti came up with the idea of putting a thin vinyl strip on the top of the windshield with an arrow pointing to the right lane that literally tells drivers to “Move Over.””
Please don’t try this in VA,it could be considered “obstruction of vision” and cost you up to 3500+ dollars and 6 points on your license, as well as a “driver responsiblity tax” to be paid until your points go away.
Hmmm. The logic behind your statement is that “if I don’t like a law, I should be able to break it.” So you can’t complain about illegal immigrants, druggies, thieves, sexual predators, drunk drivers... They’re just following the same type of logic.
I use a bumper-mounted M-2 (I wish).
You are in the wrong lane. Move over.
Once we have families, we have an increased obligation to deliver them to their destination(s) expeditiously.
That is correct. The left lane is all about traffic flow.
You say that like it is a problem.
That’s just so cute.
You’ll be happy to know that I don’t bother driving in the leftmost lane often, if I can avoid it. I’ve found that there is some kind of strange magnetic thing about that lane that attracts a$$hats. :-).
Be well.
Keep up the good work.
Eastern Mass highways are now right lane fast lane. Left lanes are for slow pickups and SUVs, no kidding. They’ve finally gone round the bend.
Where do you drive?
Pardon me, but what part of “slow left lane driver” is so hard to understand?
Urban and rural Texas at the moment, but I’ve lived and driven in California, New York and much of the rest of the country.
Why do you ask?
Most destinations don’t involve large swaths of distance, and if they do, well, it’s your own damned fault for living to where you have to drive as far, this is also why I have no sympathy for the person who decided to locate 90 minutes from where they work, but then start complaining about the price of gas.
And speeding on the freeway against the law and all good sense just makes your tank run down faster, and then wow, you become shocked that gas rises.
If the energy shortages of the 70s happened today, this country would collapse.
Same here. Plus, all cops and other government employees refuse to use any lane other than the left one.
That clogs things up even more.
Excuse me for living.
If the energy shortages of the 70s happened today, this country would collapse.
That was a shortage created by politicians.
They're trying very hard to recreate that today for some reason.
All that diatribe has nothing to do with this particular thread, but since you brought it up--there was no energy shortage then, and there isn't one now. There was and is a shortage, however, of politicians with enough balls to tell the environmentalist wackos that we're going to build some more refineries and drill some of the oil that is so plentiful in THIS country!
First of all, misquoting me was well, not an act based out of decorum.
And actually, no, nothing about what we are seeing right now is artificial. The only thing we can reasonably control is the federal gas tax. Worldwide supply and demand is what is causing our energy problems now. But it’s not as if the American public had nothing to do it. For 40 years, it has been a time honored tradition that, instead of trying to preserve a neighborhood, instead of putting in the effort to fight for where they grew up, people would just move farter and farther out.
The difference between today and 1975, besides the fact that music was much better back then, is that today, the majority of people live a good distance from where they actually work. Demand drives pricing, that’s just a fact. The public has to adjust to the fact thta, at least for the foreseeable future, gas is not going down in price anytime soon. The only thing that could cause the gas price to drop is if we saw the kind of political destablization in India and China that collapsed their economies, otherwise, high fuel prices are something we have to live with.
And actually, adjusted for inflation, we’re not to the point where we were in 1979, not yet anyway.
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