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HILL DRIVE FOR '55' ( National Maximum Speed Limit )
New York Post ^
| May 24, 2006
| IAN BISHOP
Posted on 05/24/2006 3:25:12 PM PDT by george76
- In a surprise move yesterday, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called for "most of the country" to return to a speed limit of 55 mph in an effort to slash fuel consumption...
"The 55-mile speed limit really does lower gas usage.
And wherever it can be required, and the people will accept it, we ought to do it," Clinton said at the National Press Club.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons
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To: bwteim
Nixon signed the 55 MPH into law in 1974.
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posted on
07/04/2008 11:22:26 PM PDT
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kevinw
To: Melas
Nixon resigned in 1974; he died in 1994.
462
posted on
07/04/2008 11:28:11 PM PDT
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kevinw
To: VeniVidiVici
The 55 MPH limit was signed by Nixon, not Carter.
463
posted on
07/04/2008 11:33:06 PM PDT
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kevinw
To: SierraWasp
Bill Clinton did get rid of it, but it was signed by Nixon, not Carter.
464
posted on
07/04/2008 11:41:19 PM PDT
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kevinw
To: kevinw
I don't care! Carter never made any effort to see it set aside or repealed! Let's just call it a sin of omission rather than his sin of commission!
I do appreciate your effort to keep an accurate history on FR, however. Thanks...
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07/04/2008 11:45:58 PM PDT
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SierraWasp
(My tagline has been aborted without mercy! They said it had no redeeming social value!!!)
To: kevinw
It may have been signed by Nixon but I spent my early driving years under Carter. Just one more thing to bitch about from ‘77 - ‘79 for me.
After that, until it was repealed, I spent most of my time in Germany.
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07/05/2008 12:20:58 AM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Barack Hussein Obama=Jimmy Carter Part Deux)
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