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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> Your vehicle does NOT run at optimum efficiency between 40 and 20 mph.  

But it does.  Read on.

> 
> Seriously, you'd have us believe that someone doing 60 and who would thus 
> take 20 minutes to go the 20 miles is left sitting at a stop light long 
> enough for the fella doing 25 who took almost an hour to get there? 

Yes.  We have things around here called 'mountains'. The roads thereupon coil 
and twist and dip and rise.  Every quarter mile or so at least 3/4th the way 
in town 35 is about the top speed you can negotiate the curves and even that 
is risky.  So the unthinking morons who just swallow whole the idea that 
their 
vehicle is most efficient at 50 or 60 miles an hour is constantly braking to 
make the curves and then impatiently accelerating back up to "speed" until 
the 
next one, both of which waste tremendous amounts of gas and puts the person 
at 
the first traffic light in town maybe twenty to thirty seconds ahead of 
someone who just went a constant speed the whole way.


And that's a good allegory as well.  Most people's modern gadget filled lives 
consists of braking and accelerating with the illusion they are getting 
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