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To: ATCNavyRetiree; agitator; archy; BCR #226; BigSkyFreeper; BlueLancer; Chieftain; colorado tanker; ..

Mileage in my suburbans only varies a slight amount between 55 and 65. I think 55 mph would be "feel good" solution. Besides, it would then add almost a full day to my trips to see my mom in Wyoming.


15 posted on 05/01/2005 6:29:40 AM PDT by SLB ("We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us." C. S. Lewis)
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To: SLB
I think 55 mph would be "feel good" solution.

If you "feel good" driving 55 MPH, go for it. Maintain the peak performance of your vehicle, and you won't have to drive 55 just to "feel comfortable" about saving a few dollars here or there.

41 posted on 05/01/2005 6:44:02 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Matthew 16:18)
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It is funny. These people don't have a clue. My Jeep Wrangler gets about 12mpg in town and the best it ever got was a sane drive to Deer Camp at 19mpg.

They mention the "SUV's" but never mention the Wrangler. In fact it is an acceptable vehicle to them because it is relatively small. However my friends with Suburbans get better mileage.

My cop friends discussed this with me when they temporarely lowered the speed limit in Houston to 55. They said the speed limit is the fastest safe speed for the road. How can they give you a ticket for going 70 when that is a safe speed for the road?

Of course my cop friends aren't JBT's or they wouldn't be my friends.

Fuel prices for the most part are "bean-counter" driven not real market driven. Computers are proof of this. in the early '90s I couldn't afford one. Now I have five. Discretionary income up? Oh, hell no! Prices down and availability up? Yes!

Gasoline should have followed this course too. Oh wait, the guv hasn't been able to "help" us with computer prices like they have with gas prices.

81 posted on 05/01/2005 7:28:31 AM PDT by Eaker (America, where the scepters of kings are broken up for kindling.)
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Yes I am really looking forward to adding another 8 to 10 hrs on my trips out west again. I was a happy camper when they did away with 55.


101 posted on 05/01/2005 7:57:28 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: SLB

...and that my friend is the element left out of all of the feel good equations on fuel economy, and that is how much longer the engine will be running at 55 compared to 65 or 75 or 85. Speed and economy are functions of technology, and should not be abandoned for the show side of economy.

My car would be running a day and a half longer on a cross country trip. Miles per gallon be hanged, I can't run an engine two days longer than the 75 MPH cross country trip and say I'm conserving anything, and especially not T I M E. If gas prices remain high that will solve the SUV problem to a point, but only to a point.

Those with large families and those who haul lots of people are needing the large capacity vehicles, not to mention those who have cargo needs of large vehicles because of the work they do. Allowing two idiots who may write an emotional article for the New York Times, to dictate how or what I drive does not sit well with me or anyone else who knows quite specifically what we need for vehicles.


116 posted on 05/01/2005 8:52:16 AM PDT by wita (truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
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>>I think 55 mph would be "feel good" solution.

You've got that right. The essence of good transportation is speed. Let people make their own economic choices on that one.

Speed limits are too low in many areas as it is.

The last thing this country needs is another B.S. law that makes people disrespect the law, and law enforcement, in general. Heck, current speed enforcement (primarily for revenue, not safety, in many cases) already does that pretty well, why make it worse?


224 posted on 05/01/2005 5:10:46 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Official Ruling Class Oligarch Oppressor)
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To: SLB; MeekOneGOP; devolve; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER; potlatch; ntnychik
55 in third burns more than 80 in overdrive--NYT should stick to thirty consecutive abu Ghraib headlines.

The New York Times still hasn't returned Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize for denying Stalin's famine-murder of tens of millions.

The New York Times bleats about global warming but won't stop cutting the rain forest down for its pulp.

Hey, New York Times, STFU.

225 posted on 05/01/2005 5:25:11 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: SLB

if you do the math, factoring in rpms at specific gears, you will find that -even with increased air resistance at higher speeds- the 55mph limit actually works against fuel economy.


284 posted on 05/03/2005 9:44:24 AM PDT by King Prout (blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
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