March 3, 2011
Will telling people to drive slower to save fuel…?
…be met with the same pig headed contempt that was dumped on Jimmy Carter for suggesting that wearing a sweater kept you warm.
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/104752/Slow-Down-a-Lttle-Save-a-Lot-of-Gas
Americans. They can’t and won’t change.
majority-I pray you are right. Because at this moment the country is racing toward a solid brick wall.
ratraf–yes, this all seems true. Making decisions for reasons of the common good is looked down on by a huge portion of the population. This is what we call the Me generation, and it just gets worse and worse.
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Comments on Will telling people to drive slower to save fuel…?
Some of us can change.
Wearing a sweater in the house when it’s chilly instead of cranking up the heat is just good sense. I wear nice thick wool socks around the house all winter.
As for slowing down on the highway – again, just good sense. Less wasted money out of your own paycheck spent on speeding tickets and the resulting higher insurancepremiums, not to mention fewer and less serious accidents, and of course – HUGE savings in gas.
I have no problem going the speed limit. I detest people who fly by as though the law does not apply to them.
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We have to bring in “the disapproval of society” again – it used to be that the opinion of your neighbors and peers meant something.
People need to speak out and speak up to say that obscene waste is simply no longer tolerable.
I think it would help to save fuel if those driving around solo in big SUV’s would sell their gas guzzler and start driving a small compact car and…carpooling.
But heaven help us all if anyone made any environmentally friendly decisions. It’s all about image. The I must be more important than you syndrome because I drive a big SUV and can afford to drive it really fast.
It will work only if people listen.
no driving slower waste more gas, at 60mph most cars start getting bad mpg, but when cars go slow 35mph or below it gets bad mpg
somewhere on consumer reports
no it wont make them change.. you are correct
some MIGHT change, but not the majority…
same like telling people to change their ways to save the planet.. unless their is BENEFIT TO THEM, they wont do it (the majority wont)
this is a link that hopefully will help motivate people to change by appealing to their sense of greed
http://www.gomestic.com/Personal-Finance/Save-the-Planet-Save-Your-Money.75392
who knows if it will help…