mr peters writing about that what brought him here in the first place: cars;

It’s interesting that the same busybodies in government who pretend to be so very “concerned” about gas mileage and “emissions” of the gas that isn’t a pollutant – are so blase toward left lane hogging.

One almost never hears them urging drivers to be stay right except to pass, especially if they’re not passing traffic in the right lane. Such drivers are as likely to be ticketed for not moving over to the right – even if they’ve created a mile-long conga line behind them – as it is that the traffic cop who’s not doing anything about it will be ticketed for not wearing his seatbelt.

And yet, how much gas is wasted – and “emitted” – by all the time wasted by left lane hogs, who use their cars to keep traffic bottled up and so on the road (and burning and “emitting”) for much longer than they otherwise would be?

Probably a lot more than is saved by Rube Goldberg-esque “fuel saving” technologies such as automatic stop/start (ASS), which maybe “saves” a half-gallon a month – at the cost of a second battery (to prevent the main 12V starter battery from being drained dry on account of all that re-starting) and the replacement cost of a starter that will wear out sooner on account of all that re-starting..........more......