It’s safer for both of you to either speed up to match the car in front of you in the left lane, or to find a bit of a gap in the lane next to you and move over to let the faster driver past.
Even if you don’t feel like being courteous, do you really want some guy right behind you who is getting frustrated by your slowing him down? They don’t usually get calmer as the miles go by.
I find that driving is a lot safer if I don’t treat it as a competition, and if I think about how I’d feel if I was the other guy. Let the cops enforce the rules if they want to, and drive to keep yourself alive and safe.
Charles, I’m not trying to enforce the law, just trying to stay alive. As I said, I’m happy to get over for you when I can do so safely. Speeding is dangerous, and so is tailgating.
I remember once I was in the left lane passing a line of cars, when some maniac going about 90 starts high beaming me, so I go ahead and be the nice guy and let him through.
You can imagine the intense Schadenfreude that I experienced a few miles down the road when I saw him pulled over by the Highway Patrol. I just looked at him and did my best Nelson, “HA HA!”