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John Warner (fucktard, Virginia) has introduced a “gas conservation bill”, (S. 3266, the “Immediate Steps to Conserve Gasoline Act.”).

Now, before I even bother to run into a long rant about the mind numbing ignorance of this, and what utter anencephaly it demonstrates, let’s look at what this claims it will do, shall we?

Supposedly this measure will save 167,000 barrels of oil per day. But we use over 20 million barrels a day. So in the long run, less than a percent.

Let’s look at how gas gets used, then. When a car is at speed, say 65-85 mph, very little gas is used to keepit going. At speed 9Whcih is why highway mileage ratings are higher) the engine is just ticking along, keeping the speed up, especially with overdrives on modern vehicle transmissions. So the vast majority of the fuel use takes place during acceleration, because the vast majority of the work is required to overcome the inertia of the vehicle. Sure, at the higher speeds, it’s harder to push something lie a truck or a van through wind, but most of the vehicles on the road today are remarkably aerodynamic.

So where was i? Oh, yes: Accelerating, and braking. If you accelerate, you use the most fuel. If you brake, you’re taking that inertia you created, and just turning it into wasted, non usable heat. Where is acceleration and braking taking place most? Cities, and traffic. Out in flyover country, acceleration is not breackneck, because those country boys know they’ll get there. And they often coast to a stop, using every damned erg of that precious gas. if you never drove in the country, you have no idea.

So if hard accel and hard braking are using the fuel, where does that take place?

Cities.

Predominantly, blue cities. In fact, if you want to find stop and go traffic, you almost have to go to a heavily democrat area.

So the people that are gunning their engines, squealing their brakes, honking their horns, and flipping the bird at fellowe drivers, are predominantly

Democrat.

No study is being done on this (of course) but I’d venture to guess that FAR more than a measly percent could be saved by stopping the foolishness that is “typical”city driving and expressway construction. So again, the few (who can’t drive 55 anyway) rather than change THEIR habits, want the people who aren’t causing the problem to make sacrifices.

Color me surprised. NOT.