Cars, cars, everywhere there's cars, blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind...

As I've noted before, I spend inordinate amount of time on the road. With gas prices going over $4/gallon recently people are changing their driving habits. Out here everything is so far apart that doesn't mean driving less, it means driving slower. Which gets irritating. I've slowed down, I drive 55 max unless I'm on an interstate and accelerate slowly, it netted me another 5mpg. When your commute alone is over 350 miles a week that makes a difference. But I've noticed a lot of people driving excessively slow lately. Take for example a lady doing 30mph on US24, a speed limit 60 road. She was just creating a hazard, a dead deer in the road would have been less trouble because you wouldn't get semis doing 70 and swerving. At least once per day I find someone doing 15mph or more under the speed limit, almost always someone who likes to drive in the middle of the road too. And today, to make my commute take even longer, I got stuck behind 4 buses. My first thought was, "Why are there 4 buses on the same road at the same time, isn't that inefficient?" Yes, Virginia, it is. My second thought was, "Is it a law buses must drive 40mph?"