Gas gets expensive when you push down too hard on the accelerator. According to EPA figures, the price of gasoline goes up 24 cents a gallon, so to speak, for every five miles an hour above 60. A commenter on the page says that most car engines are tuned for top efficiency at somewhere around 50 mph.
The sound you hear is the sound of the social fabric in America rotting and beginning to snap. Thanks to the unemployment insurance system adopted during the New Deal years, and thanks in part to the stimulus that the Obama administration and Congress passed earlier in the year, we do not have hordes of out-of-work Americans standing in line at soup kitchens and riding the rails from town to town. Even so, the invisible decay of America’s social order is just as real as the highly visible decay of abandoned McMansions in new developments that are turning into ghost towns across the continent.
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