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Houston will be lowering speed limits in an eight-county area to 55 mph in May 2002. Dallas area drivers have already had to endure this. Texas is the only state in the country implementing this nonsense. The EPA has forced it on us. It is the contention of the NMA that these speed limits are illegal. The state is superceding the Federal Highway Administration (FHwA) mandates because of EPA blackmail. The EPA contends that car emissions will be "substantially reduced" if people would drive slower. They manufacture these benefits using a computer model that the Government Accounting Office said had...