Originally Posted by The Human Car

Unfortunately lessons we learned on how to conserve gas in the 70's have been long forgotten. The buzzword now is "delays waste gas." So therefore being delayed by a cyclist wastes gas and is bad for the environment.

I'm not disagreeing with the positive side of higher gas prices but it also creates a negative side where motorists want to move as fast as possible (no delays = traveling fast) so there is a trend to drive faster and be less tolerant of things that slow motoring down.