Should we have a nationwide 55 mph speed limit?

Whatever small gain you get from fuel conservation you lose in time. My time is valuable and I don't want trips to take 30 minutes longer to save 2 dollars or whatever. Actually they should raise the speed limits.

They already pulled that junk.

And, the "convertibles" are dangerous stuff, and banned 'em for a while.

At that time it was "all about the insurance companies" losin' money when folks were injured and, or, died!

Update, sort of:

When the motorbike folks wear a seat belt, I'll put mine on. How do ya think that'll hold up in court?

Seat belts are another insurance scam and a "freedom violation"!

so I pretty much drive like an old fart with a loud boom stereo, with just an occasional boot off the line to feel the torque, hear the engine, and a small tire chirp ("Man" shit) *curls arm and makes muscle*. Other than that, no hurry here. Just a slow cruise the rest of the way, and some good intensley loud music to immerse myself in, leaving me niether here, nor there, on the 55 thing. I'm kinda like a laid back late 60's early 70's reject, except I'm going for the Mullet look now instead of full long hair in my second childhood because too much of it has fallen out for the latter.. (one more time before it all falls out then back to the business look)

how about the worthless political class leeches get out of the way and let the market deal with this problem.

they, after all, are the source of the problem, what with their needless wars, threats against Iran, central economic planning, and inflation of the money supply. are we really going to look to them for a solution? national speed limit?? what a joke.

why not take this idiotic idea to its logical conclusion and just make the speed limit 0 mph thereby effectively ending driving??

i am so tired of these pricks trying to regulate our behavior and action as if they have the wisdom to do anything but suck up resources from the market like a disease...

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We all know that ANYTHING that our sorry government comes up with is due to not only fail but ruin everything around it!

They are destroyers! Got it? They have NO GOOD IDEAS LEFT!

NONE!

The only thing that should be lowered nationwide is the paychecks of these SOBs in Washington DC.

How's about lowering their pay to $55,000 per year?

Still about $40,000 too much but that's OK.

I don't drive over 65 most of the time (I'm mostly 70-75mph zones). Back when it was passed 3 decades ago that was the "efficient zone" for cars then. Today's cars need to be tested. I'm pretty sure it'll be 55 b/c above that is when air resistance takes in effect. And air resistance goes up exponetially. It only takes around 30hp to move a car at 60mph, but to break 200 it takes around 800hp even in the slickest of designs. I'm doing it by choice and kind of necessity. Will they.. Nope, not unless it gets really bad. These people want to get elected again.. It's political suicide these days. So yes for me, but they won't do it anytime soon.

Excellent plan! Save resources until we can drill more oil. Excellent campaign issue to draw a distinction between GOP and those socialists in the Democratic party.

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Fanciful likes or dislikes... That has nothing remotely to do with the issue at hand. This isn't for any kind of benefit whatsoever--that's not just a guess. Too many people approach life like it's an ongoing experiment.

It would serve absolutely no purpose. It would cause damage.

The educated idiots on the Hill know that. They just love playing boss; that's all. This isn't some halfed-baked, off-the-cuff assumption; this is a knowledge, based on both memory and mechanical background.

Our elected morons know that the public usually uses kneejerk reaction to decide, espeacially when a self-imosed expert "confirms" something that sounds logical.

--Cliff, Sioux City, Iowa

So people can get the hell out of the country when they awaken

I have yet to see a 'speed limit' sign designated as 'm.p.h.". The signs simply state-Speed Limit 55. 55 what is my question; degrees, inches or maybe it's kilometers per hour.When you are pulled over for speeding the officer generally asks, "do you know how fast you were going?" and or, "do you know what the speed limit is here?" When you reply that you were going x miles per hour you have made a legal determination that the speed limit is designated in miles per hour. What you should instead do is invoke your 5th amendment right to not incriminate yourself. And here's a few bigger questions: Since when did a free American need a drivers license to travel on the roads that they own? What authority do traffic code enforcement officers have over a free and sovereign American (and if they do have authority where does it come from)?

We must hang together, or surely we will hang separately

People would still barrel down the highways at 85mph in their gas-guzzling V8 anyway.

It never ceases to amaze me that in these times of high gas prices, I see people tromping on the accelerator, flying up to stoplights and jamming on the brakes at the last second, speeding like mad, doing burn-outs, and seemingly not caring or knowing what it's doing to their gas mileage.

I've come to the conclusion that many Americans are simply mega-consumers and will do anything possible to completely use up whatever resources they have at the earliest possible time.

A 55mph limit would just make more speeding tickets happen, and not do a thing for fuel savings, because people wouldn't observe the lower limit

It wouldn't surprise me to find that oil interests keep car fuel economy poor deliberately

Oh no. It should be raised to at least 80 mph to accommodate euro travellers and raising it higher still may take less stress on the road and bridge surfaces if down draft spoilers are forbidden? But I do think Harley's should be limited to 35mph. LOL.

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Let the market decide...
I used to be a "speed demon", but lately (last few years) I drive like an "old grandma" (no offense to "The Grannys"). I even started doing some "Hyper-Mileing", coasting when possible and turning off the engine sometimes, etc.
Different vehicles have their own "optimum" speed. My motorcycle gets 30mpg no matter what speed I drive? My Cadillac has a mileage computer readout, it gets 25mpg at 70mph in overdrive, less at 55, it's not up to optimum speed. My truck, well 10-15 no matter what.

But so what? The government shouldn't be forcing us to save gas. Let the market decide how much gas it wants to use.

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seeing how most modern cars are geared to get their best gas milage from 60-65mph. NO!

it would save alot of gas.

i go 55 all the time and my V8 barley uses gas.

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