[B4Ranch]

Have you noticed anyone slowing their speed across the flats?

[BallyBill]

Speed Kills...

..and wastes fuel..

[deport]

Truckers Slowing Down to Save Fuel

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Now maybe they won’t run side by side for miles trying to pass since they are supposedly slowing down. I’ve not noticed any slowing but maybe they have.

[seowulf]

So, diesel costs the same now as it did in ‘97. The only difference is that the dollar is worth half as much now.

[Yardstick]

I saw a thing in Reader’s Digest the other day about a guy who was able to wring over 100 mpg out of his mid-90s Honda Accord by driving to conserve. This was on a track with no other drivers so he could do really extreme things like driving 15 mph in 5th gear. But even on the street he was able to get 70+ mpg. His golden rule was to use the brakes as little as possible. He liked to coast in to stop signs (he did mention that he got honked at/shouted at a lot by drivers behind him). Where he could avoid it he used no brakes on off ramps and curves. He accelerated like a snail and, when parking, liked to come to rest on the top of hills to conserve potential energy. He called that “potential parking”.

[TalBlack]

“Truckers and industry officials say slowing a tractor-trailer rig from 75 mph to 65 mph increases fuel mileage by more than a mile a gallon, “

A bit off topic but I read in Hot Rod that the nitro methane dragsters use about i gallon A SECOND during the 4 some odd seconds they are going down the track. (And nitro uses wayyyy more air than gasoline to boot)

[NonValueAdded]

State troopers have noticed the decline in truckers' speeds, said North Dakota Highway Patrol Capt. Eric Pederson.

Watch for the revenue drop backlash. The next step will be raising fines to conpensate.

[Republic of Texas]

Great. All I ask is stay out of the left lane.

[bert]

the cost of slowing down is a decrease in wages. The time increases and somewhere there is a tradeoff between slowing down and driver cist.

Reducing speed to 55 will cause a depression as all costs rise precipitously.

This but a crude lefty attempt to reinstate the 55 mile limit

[rottndog]

I dropped from 75 down to 62 mph on the cruise control...gets me 2 extra trips to work between fillups, at $10 per trip.

[Kickass Conservative]

I was sitting in the Baton Rouge Airport last week watching CNN. They had a report about diesel fuel prices and were interviewing Truckers.
The reporter was giddy, using the time to bash the Bush economy and he had a bunch of these guys blaming Oil Companies and the Iraq War for the problem. No mention of Democrats blocking energy production or the enviro wackos causing any of the problems.
I was grumbling under my breath, watching the other passengers soaking all this crap up like a sponge. And this was in Louisiana of all places.
Propaganda is alive and well, and the sheeple of this country are too stupid or too ignorant to care.