Dear Congressman:
I've always appreciated your postings and have concurred 100% on all of them except this one. I suffered thru the Carter debacle and the so-called 55 speed limit years and found both Carter and the reduced speed limit nothing but crap and nothing more than an income generator for the highway patrols.........
People are naturally going to exceed whatever mandated speed limit whether its 55 or 70 and statistics prove that most of the fatal accidents are "in city" rather than expressway. And as for the expressway accidents, most of them occur during the winter months due to snow and icy conditions totally unrelated to posted speed limits since most of the drivers were driving below posted speeds yet in excess of the safety margins afforded the weather conditions.
You know darn well that this reduced speed limit proposal by Congress (as well as my state governor Granholm) is nothing more than a useless feel good proposal in order to make the ignorant believe that the U.S. Govt. is looking out for us.
You, Congressman Billybob, above all people, should be ashamed of yourself........./
Maybe the government should post a speed limit of 1.81*10^12 furlongs per fortnight. Easier and cheaper than FTL research I would think.