Speed limit should be based on safety, not dubious concerns over carbon emissions. Also, it should primarily be a State matter.
And no. 55mph is too darn slow.
If you are not a warmer there is no hypocrisy in your opinion.
Speed limit should be based on safety, not dubious concerns over carbon emissions. Also, it should primarily be a State matter.
And no. 55mph is too darn slow.
I am of the opinion that such climate change as may be occurring, is primarily part of a natural cycle; that any anthropogenic contributions are secondary, and that any climate change that may arguably be in progress does not constitute an emergency let alone global disaster.
So that'd be a no, I'm not a warmer.
My community switched to 75 mph on some long sections of freeways, and it's great. Have been waiting to see if there's an uptick in accidents, but so far, no.
Not long ago Montana had no speed limit, it was carnage.
As I say, so far, so good. And there is a difference between no limits and a higher limit.
Faster you go the faster things go wrong and the less time you have to react. Wrecks at high speeds are worse too. If we had a 5 mph speed limit there would be no fatalities but a happy medium must be reached. A mile a minute seems like a good speed IMO.
I recently bought a new car that tells you how many mpg you are getting in real time and it was interesting to play around with different speeds to see what my mileage was. I always knew the faster you go the worse the mpg but seeing it as it happened was informative. My Subaru got 38 mpg at 55mph and dropped to around 31 mpg at 65 mph. When Carter made the speed limit 55 everyone had a fit until it was changed but in this age where so many are so convinced we are warming the planet with fossil fuel it makes me wonder how many of them would be willing to slow down in order to put less carbon into the air. It's put up or shut up time.:lol:
I hated when the maximum speed limit was 55. I was so happy when that changed in the 1990's. On my last road trip I would often drive around 80 when the speed limit was 70 MPH. Driving 55 is just too slow on the open road. I don't care if I save a few miles a gallon or not.
Same. I drive fast, and even going 80-90 most everywhere highway, I average about 25 MPG. I'm not worried about it.
I usually keep it around 80, however I will occasionally get it up to 90-95 for brief periods to get away or around rude slow drivers that hangout in the fast lane blocking traffic behind them. On our last trip I was driving my wife's Mercury Mountaineer with a V8 and it is very fast for an SUV. Faster than most cars on the road these days I think.
I already drive "like a grampa" [read as "the speed limit"]. My wife and all the other drivers on the freeway would laden me with curses if I was driving 15mph below the speed limit. Sound dangerous to me. No, thank you.I recently bought a new car that tells you how many mpg you are getting in real time and it was interesting to play around with different speeds to see what my mileage was. I always knew the faster you go the worse the mpg but seeing it as it happened was informative. My Subaru got 38 mpg at 55mph and dropped to around 31 mpg at 65 mph. When Carter made the speed limit 55 everyone had a fit until it was changed but in this age where so many are so convinced we are warming the planet with fossil fuel it makes me wonder how many of them would be willing to slow down in order to put less carbon into the air. It's put up or shut up time.:lol:
I already drive "like a grampa" [read as "the speed limit"]. My wife and all the other drivers on the freeway would laden me with curses if I was driving 15mph below the speed limit. Sound dangerous to me. No, thank you.
My question was meant to be should we bring 55 back as law not would you drive slower than the law. Funny part is the warmers are running from this thread, I wonder why.:lol:
Not long ago Montana had no speed limit, it was carnage.
I call BS. My sister lives there and has for sometime. The reason they got rid of the no limit law was outsiders coming in with Ferraris and whatnot driving like idiots. Out in eastern Montana they don't bother you if you are speeding unless you are being a twit about it.
I have a Ford Escape with a 3.0 V6. It's got some some zip to it, and it's surprisingly good on gas. The stop and go of city/town travel is what kills fuel economy. On the highway, the engine is basically at a steady high idle while the transmission does all the work.
Not the way I remember it and I drove in Montana a lot because I worked there a lot but whatever, that is not the real issue of this thread.
Out in eastern Montana they don't bother you if you are speeding unless you are being a twit about it.
Higher Speed Limits Cost Lives, Researchers Find"During the first year there was a drop of almost 17 percent in fatalities after the speed laws were reduced to 55 miles per hour," said Lee Friedman, assistant research professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at UIC and lead author of the study.
We are actually thinking about buying a Ford Escape or Mercury Mariner, and if we do then the Mountaineer will become my daily driver.
As far as the whole 55 MPH federal speed limit coming back, I really hope it doesn't. I did some quick research about the Act (then law) that repealed federal speed limits (55 MPH), and it passed with strong support from both Democrats and Republicans. 80 to 16 in the Senate. 419 to 7 in the House.
I recently bought a new car that tells you how many mpg you are getting in real time and it was interesting to play around with different speeds to see what my mileage was. I always knew the faster you go the worse the mpg but seeing it as it happened was informative. My Subaru got 38 mpg at 55mph and dropped to around 31 mpg at 65 mph. When Carter made the speed limit 55 everyone had a fit until it was changed but in this age where so many are so convinced we are warming the planet with fossil fuel it makes me wonder how many of them would be willing to slow down in order to put less carbon into the air. It's put up or shut up time.:lol: