I moved out to New Mexico last year, I didn't realize that the stated speed on the highways is 75 MPH. Of course, if you go 75, you will get run off the road by all those doing 90+.
If she pushed this as a presidential candidate, you can color this tossup state red.....
If you drive 55 instead of, say, 65 mph, it will take you an extra 10 minutes to drive 60 miles. Assuming that your gas milage goes from 20 to 22.5 miles per gallon, you will also have saved 0.3 gallons of gas. At $2.75 a gallon, that gas would be worth 82.5 cents. So, if you save 90 cents by spending and extra 10 minutes on the road, you are saving money at a rate of $4.95 for every hour wasted driving 55. This is slightly less than the minimum wage.
This is what Hillary! thinks your time is worth.
Great. Same old recycled nonsolutions to bring revenue to the government.
Driving 55MPH in Texas is excruciating!
Hillary needs to start walking to work.
AND, if it does benefit insurance companies, don't expect them to lower the rate.
"205(d) Repeal of the National Maximum Speed Limit Compliance Program Repeals the law that required that the States adhere to national maximum speed limits. This repeal allows each State to set any speed limit it wants, or no speed limit at all, on all vehicles. Congress set the national maximum speed limit at 55 mile per hour in 1974 as a fuel-saving measure in response to an oil embargo. It relaxed the law in 1987, when it raised the limit to 65 miles per hour on highways built to Interstate standards outside urbanized areas."
We certainly don't need to go through this cr@p again!
If only there were some mechanism that would notify people when gas was in short supply and encourage them to conserve without needing micromanaging government regulations. We could call it "price" or something.
Why don't we just go back to the horse & buggy and not worry about gasoline?
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http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/69045.htm
One of Reagan's lowest moments.
I live in Montana, and in Montana there's a lot of dirt between light bulbs...
The former 55 MPH speed limit was a first for MT; it was formerly a reasonable and prudent speed statute with a substantial fine and points. So our legislature in response to the actions of the Congress; revised our laws and we had a $5 on the spot fine for the unnecessary consumption of fuel and no points...
Pass your stupid back east type 55 MPH law again and we’ll quickly go back to our reasonable and prudent statute with a low fine and no points.
Sammie said it best: “I CAN’T DRIVE 55!!!”
Now, she proposes to take away our time, for the common good.
This will make her unelectable:
"She is offering 1970's policies that may have made sense when you had a three speed transmission and a car shaped like a house, but today's modern cars can go faster, efficiently."
The old 55 mph speed limit was very unpopular in red states. I'd like to see a comparison of the order in which states repealed their 55 mph limits and what proportion of the popular vote those states gave to Republican presidential candidates from 1988 to 2004.
The bunching of traffic caused by 55 mph speed limits was endangering people's lives. Moreover it's far from obvious that anything other than the stodgiest vehicles were getting max gas mileage at 55. Most are going to get optimum mileage at the point at which valve timing becomes optimal in top gear and that in most modern cars is going to fall around 65 - 75.
Please tell me she isn't messin' with Texas. We don't "do" 55 here.
She needs to be squashed like a stinkbug. There is no end to her evil
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But, I won't bother Mrs. Bill Clinton while she tries desperately to revive the glory years of the Carter presidency...
