[Gondring]

Yes, the savings is quite significant. But most people do a comparison of highway driving at a higher speed to trips taken on a different road at a lower speed. If they did both on the same road, they'd see the difference.

But I note that it's easy to spend other peoples' money (tens of thousands of dollars per family) on a war that "is required to secure the middle eastern oil flow, yet they are not willing to slow down to keep demand down.

Interesting phenomenon, sociologically. After all, the Iraq War costs could have paid for our foreign oil imports for 15 years...yet people complain about the costs of gasoline going up to $4/gallon. We bought an Iraq war instead of 5,000 gallons of gasoline for each American family, even at current pump prices...is this buyers' remorse coming on?

[rottndog]

Don’t get me wrong....I’m not driving slower to reduce demand..simply to spend less $.

As far as the Iraq war goes, as well as the impending Iran war, we would be spending far more money for oil and gasoline now and in the future if not for our presence in the Persian Gulf. It’s not just ‘our’ oil flow we must be concerned with.