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Smell the Roses - Suicidal Tendancies By Dale Allen Pfeiffer

Society & Culture  (tags: peak oil, speed limit, Gas prices, corruption, culture, environment, freedoms, government, media, society )

Elizabeth
- 60 days ago - mountainsentinel.com
Why does it seem that every time the price of gas goes up, motorists respond by driving faster? Is it some misguided belief that if they reach their destination quicker, they will use less gas?
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honeysucklebarb Liebowitz (506)
Friday June 27, 2008, 6:39 pm
because they are on a suiside trip and take everybody with them
 

Elizabeth Anne Pfeiffer (159)
Friday June 27, 2008, 8:27 pm
Much to my proofreading embarrassment...I spelled tendencies as tendancies....
 

NotSilent SpeakTheTruth (28)
Friday June 27, 2008, 10:37 pm

They drive faster and buy more and act selfish because they are-----

morons.

Plain and simple, people's brains do very little beyond what it takes to sustain their breathing and heart rate and other functions necessary to live.

Thinking is a lost art.

 

Birdie B. (112)
Saturday June 28, 2008, 4:10 am
I was comming down the mountain last weekend
some one was tailgating me, no respect for the mountain and the
curves, so I pulled over and let him pass me,no idea if he made it safely down
 

Michelle Neubert (1)
Saturday June 28, 2008, 6:19 pm
1. going 55 really does increase mileage 10% to 20%.
2. people under age (18) in 1975, didn't learn about mileage savings.
3. there are fewer Highway Patrolmen giving tickets.
4. drove to alaska several years ago at speed limit or 5 mph faster. constantly pullling over to let
5 or more cars pass. asked a sheriff what to do -- obey speed limit or pull over when 5
speeders in back of me. he said pulling over would be best bet.
 

Pauline F. (8)
Saturday June 28, 2008, 8:33 pm
why do motor companies keep on making more powerful cars?
 

Elizabeth Anne Pfeiffer (159)
Sunday June 29, 2008, 9:42 am
t is with some embarrassment that I must state Fulton "Jay" Hanson of greenslowmovingvehicle.com and Jay Hanson of dieoff.com are two different people. There was some confusion about identities, and I was too busy to clear this up for myself, so I simply accepted the word of others.

In any case, the advice on driving slower is no less valid. I still urge everyone to take an interest in slowing down.

Dale Allen Pfeiffer
 

Jillyanne Michelle Cape (334)
Sunday June 29, 2008, 1:59 pm
I have been driving slower on the highway for a long time, but I have yet to see even one car (in the area where I live) doing the same thing. I drive 55 and people pass me like I am standing still. Some honk their horns and occasionally I get flipped a finger. Just because I am driving 55. I know this amounts to a significant savings in gas as lately had an emergency and drove between 65-70 to get into town due to the urgency of the situation and was notably amazed at how much less gas I had left in my tank as a result. Also, like Pauline, I have never understood why with the problems being what they are, that the motor companies have only continued with making forever bigger more powerful vehicles or why the law continues to raise the speed limits increasingling higher either.
 
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