This might sell in the tree hugging world, but for the vast majority of people who actually have to drive this will go over like a mandatory root canal. Keep talking Hill:).
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton ..."We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
/s
....Wow....I can't believe that I agree with her on something....I must be coming down with a viral infection.
Not this nonsense again. Some of us remember the 70's. Some of us remember the absurdity of driving across Nevada on the interstate highway (or trying to, anyway) at 55 mph. Maybe 55 through urban areas with heavy traffic is just dandy, but it's absurd to try to make people drive 55 on wide-open interstates where traffic is sparse and distances are long.
IDIOTS!
If 55 is such a great idea, why not 45mph????
In fact, Why don't we make the speed limit the average attainable maximum speed on a bicycle? That way we'll save lots of gas AND ecourage people to ride bikes instead of cars!!
OH MY GOSH IM A GENIUS! I MAY HAVE JUST SAVED THE WHOLE PLANET!
Oh my gosh, I just had another brilliant idea! Since bikes are made in factories and factories polute, once everyone gets rid of their cars and rides bikes, we can then lower the speed limit to the average walking speed of a human! Then everyone will quit riding bikes and start walking! Once we acheive that, all we got to do is convince everyone to walk barefoot and bare @ssed...that way we won't need pavement anymore OR CLOTHING FACTORIES! Just think of all the polution we could save if we didn't need any concrete! And we won't need houses to store all our clothes and once we don't need houses, we won't need jobs...It'll be a perfect utopean planet OF DUMB@SS MONKEY BRAINED LIBERAL DIRTBAGS HUMPING THEIR SISTERS IN STICK HUTS!!!!
IOW, the "little people" can return to 55.
Those chauffered around would be exempt, of course.
Oh HELL no!
I may be biased but in my opinion the ONLY notable thing Bill Klintoon did for all of us - positive basis, not like selling our secrets to China, was to make it reasonably comfortable to drive - at 65 mph. Little else in his "legacy" will be remembered except as infamy.
Not much compared to what he did wrong and I am not discussing choice or use of cigars but for the good of our nation.
I'm sure it lowers gas usage, but it will take so much long to get anywhere!
The speed limit between LA and Las Vegas is 70 or 75 (I have done this trip many times), but I go about 80-85 and seems that most folks just blow by me, anyway.
Going 55 for that stretch sounds absurd to me. Plus, most people will be going 80-90 anyway.
Another frigging moron who values people's time at $0 value.
This from the woman whose rig almost ran over a police officer and didn't slow down? Hmmmm.... maybe my recollection is fuzzy...
Well, this will certainly make her popular out west.
Every single driver will be a criminal.
Keep it up, Hitlery! Try to lower it to 50 and get even more popular!
Maybe on Manhatten Island.