Me, gullible? I've never fallen for anything! Excuse me, I have a bridge in New York to procure.

I want your coordinated lights, where I'm at I'm lucky to hit three in a row most of the time so I'm used to not getting up to speed for that light in a quarter mile that will still be red 15 seconds after I get there (and 20 seconds after the brake dust clears from the guy that went as fast as he could).

Yeah most of my areas are when I'm going to have to stop already, I just prefer not to wear out the breaks when I have a chance. I don't slow down unless I have an indication I will have no choice and I tend to avoid being particularly drastic in heavy traffic (ex only slowing down early enough that I get there maybe 5 seconds later than the guy slamming on the brakes). But your points are still valid, like I say use when appropriate.

I'll admit 2-3 gallons per load is pretty good but my wife usually uses about 2 gallons, plus our dishwasher is at least 10 years old and I'm not too big on buying a brand new one.

75% of the time I end up catching up to them at every stop light. And my non accelerating ass gets up to 60 in about 8 seconds when there isn't a car in front of me. I tend to only hypermile when I'm going to have to stop shortly, otherwise I get up to speed and stay there (You know, five miles above that number on those white signs over there? Many of those people that blow by me do it when I'm at the speed limit too and wonder why I'm always catching up to them).

Almost no sensors along the streets I drive and few filter lanes though the point is valid.

I think the creepy part is the ability of most all humans to ignore or deny the symptoms that indicate they should really just crash on a couch somewhere. Though some people are probably just wired in a way that means they should never touch intoxicants.

Mechanical devices are pretty well guaranteed to fail over time and need replaced. Software does not degrade over time and is much less expensive to fix any problems.

Yeah I personally think Al Gore is an idiot but he seems to be an honest idiot which in some ways makes him better than a lot of people in both camps...

My wife uses our dish washer to store dirty dishes when company is over but not much else. She complains it costs money to use and produces worse results than washign by hand.

Like most everything its about using it when appropriate. Why do 0-60 in 4 seconds on an empty freeway entrance? Likewise why enter a packed freeway where all the cars are running 60 MPH at 35 MPH, you'll just have to stop.

I also don't get people who get pissed off when I let off the gas early coming up to a red light. Why blow by me when I am now 5 MPH under the speed limit approaching a light that just turned red, and then slam on the brakes at the stop light while I roll up beside you anyway. Just not driving aggressively would save a lot of net gas mileage.

Depends on what you are trying to conserve, from what I find his car is worth about $5k US and yours is worth about $20k US. I think I can use that $15k difference towards a lot better approaches to cut my energy use, such as solar panels or more efficient appliances. I mostly focus more on not driving a lot (~7500 miles a year) rather than using less gas and driving like crazy.

I can't see eliminating cash as also eliminating precious metals. Non government forms of trade good are hard to eliminate.

I've seen model based development try to replace coders. SCADE is becoming more widely used but still needs software developers to work with it. Seems to be more about the mindset of a developer being able to turn an input into an output without forgetting any possible conditions (which even developers often fail at).

Well the sports industry seems to be more than happy to support those in denial about their abilities. While those in denial about their abilities can often squeak by in the software industry, those truly in denial often get soundly squashed.