Once we have families, we have an increased obligation to deliver them to their destination(s) expeditiously.
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.