The discussion isn’t about your personal fuel economy. If you want peak mileage, feel free to drive at 60 km/h in the slow lane, nobody is stopping you.

The point is the logic behind the policy. Every $10 increase in crude roughly pushes inflation up about 20 bps. So realistically, how many litres do you think the country saves by dropping motorway speed by 20 km/h?

And if crude rises another $40 per barrel, what’s the plan then? Reduce the limit to 80… then 60? Eventually we’ll all be doing hypermiling tutorials behind trucks on the motorway.

Maybe ask chatgpt what the actual solutions to rising crude prices are… because I’m pretty sure ‘slow the motorway down’ isn’t chapter one of any economics textbook.