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Here is some advice for those that want to get back at the big oil companies and half the price of the cost of gas:
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Actually how about we admit for the present that there is no way to leverage oil companies to lower the price of gasoline on the street at this point in time and go with what we can do.
Yeah your suggestion about getting double your mpg is doable, except that I am already getting 32 mpg as it is, so what else can we do.
1 rationalize speed limits.
I cant speak to other jurisdictions , but my daily comute goes from 30 to 80 down to 50 back up to 80 drop down briefly to 60 kph, so my provincial wag is going to hear about constant speed and I could give a shit about little towns setting special speed limits for what ever reason.
- Remove stop signs and rationalize traffic lights
As above with jurisdictions. There is absolutely no reason why the fuck an intersection should not have two advance greens going left in both directions. I could probably do a search in the pit about this , watching oncoming vehicles coming along in tidal wave, while a sizeable conga line is forming all waiting for the amber light to come so we can blast through.
Stop signs here were put in place to calm traffic, yeah keep richie off the street and allow traffic to flow, that keeps me from uselessly wasting gas going from dead stop to 40 kph , do that five stop signs in a row.
- Road construction/line painting.
Nothing torks me off more than finding out that three lanes of freeway traffic is stopped simply cause some guys are out there doing line repainting , guard rail replacement( special mention for this one next) or pot hole fixing , or what ever.
This stuff is mentioned in the news , but it is never planned for and every summer at least three thousand vehicles are burning gas sitting at idle with a/c on, at any given moment. Road repairs are budgetted and planned months or years in advance, so how come the bright fellows never seem to get it down to a science.
Once again , my provincial wag is gonna hear about this , as there are secondary routes one can take to get around this , but those county roads have 4 way stop signs instead of traffic lights,and the one route that does have traffic lights , has a ten to two minute ratio for light changes, but going the other way.
- Accidents
Shit happens, then ya gotta clean up after em. But with those guard rails that are fixed in place , traffic cant move while the clean up is in progress. Since we dont have those ditches that you see on interstates, just 6 lanes total with the gaurd rail between em , i never grok why at certain intervals , these are not remove able, letting opposite traffic have two lanes, while letting the other side bleed through on the one lane.
So it begs the question , how much are we actually inadvertantly wasting.
What we need to get from point a to point b weekly should be actually less that what we are using now, resulting in hopefully an over supplied province resulting in price drops.
Declan