Actually the acceleration isn't the problem, it's the braking. Every time you apply the brakes you're wasting gas.
My definition of "driving like a decent human being", would be not causing the line of cars behind you to sit through another light. They'll, combined, use more fuel sitting through another light cycle than you would doing a 6000rpm hole-shot, through the light. Moderation, balance, consideration, brains,....it takes all of them to......
I'd like to teach the World to sing, in perfect....