Are gas costs affecting road rage?

The logic behind road rage is that it usually involves an aggressive driver, maybe even more than one, and combine with life factors such as being in a bad mood, personal issues that are going on, and the combination of all of these factors leads to an irate person who literally “drives like a madman”. It can mean yelling at the other driver, becoming almost physically violent with the use of an car, and so on.

So, with the obvious pinch at the pump, wouldn’t that suggest more of a risk of people developing road rage? Well, strangely enough, my opinion is that it really isn’t doing so, and there may even be a reduction in terms of these situations. Why? Well, people are obviously being conscious about their driving habits, including slowing down, being more apt to drive only when needed, and therefore I think it is cutting down on the phenomenon of road rage.

I travel daily down a 10 mile stretch that is the busiest corridor in Indianapolis and also in the state, and there is a tendency to get bunched up considerably for several lights in a row. What I have witnessed is that people are not trying to weave in and out of traffic, gun red lights as much, or go excessively over the speed limit on open stretches. I may not be an expert on this or anything else, but my bet is that road rage is taking a bit of a backseat to gas pump worry. But give it time…anger always seems to eventually be king of our emotions.

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