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HILL DRIVE FOR '55' ( National Maximum Speed Limit )
New York Post ^ | May 24, 2006 | IAN BISHOP

Posted on 05/24/2006 3:25:12 PM PDT by george76

- In a surprise move yesterday, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called for "most of the country" to return to a speed limit of 55 mph in an effort to slash fuel consumption...

"The 55-mile speed limit really does lower gas usage.

And wherever it can be required, and the people will accept it, we ought to do it," Clinton said at the National Press Club.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: FDNYRHEROES
Will Illegal Aliens be required to obey the 55-mile per hour speed limit as well?

Only if those responsible for upholding the law actually enforce it.

221 posted on 05/25/2006 1:53:12 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

The western side of North Dakota is a veritable speed trap. I was headed to Minot, North Dakota several years ago, and was the only one on the highway it seemed, and all of a sudden a cop car came over a hill, turned his lights on, pulled me over. I was going 65 in an unposted 55 MPH stretch of 2-lane highway about 3 hours west of Minot.


222 posted on 05/25/2006 1:58:34 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: Ole Okie; obnogs

I believe it was passed about '73 or '74 as a result of an Arab oil crisis. I think it was a Nixon abomination.

It was during my freshman year in college, which was 73-74, so that would have been Nixon.

223 posted on 05/25/2006 2:01:16 AM PDT by TN4Liberty (Sixty percent of all people understand statistics. The other half are clueless.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
But I agree, I couldn't imagine going across lonely stretches of highway across states like Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, or even Nevada at 55 MPH. I-90 across South Dakota for example seems like it takes forever to get from Rapid City to Sioux Falls even at interstate speeds. The north-south drive across the interstate through Wyoming from Montana to Colorado seems like a long drive too, even at 75 MPH.

Heck, the women in Wyoming seem to drive faster than the men.

224 posted on 05/25/2006 2:05:31 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: george76

This women is as dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to political skills. How exactly is this going to sell in flyover country, surely setting speed limits is not going to attract voters.


225 posted on 05/25/2006 2:09:49 AM PDT by GregH
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To: TRY ONE

Yep. They always have new (and old) ways to make us suffer. They turned the Highway Patrol into glorified tax collectors back in the 1970's. Nixon did that the year he resigned.

Hillary and her ilk always want more of our money for themselves to spend.


226 posted on 05/25/2006 2:12:27 AM PDT by Luke21 (Democrats hate us, our heritage, and our religion. They think we belong in cages. Never forget.)
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To: george76

God I wish she would stick a sock in that big mouth of hers. Amen.


227 posted on 05/25/2006 2:35:21 AM PDT by gakrak ("A wise man's heart is his right hand, But a fool's heart is at his left" Eccl 10:2)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
Well, it is only 129 miles from Minot to Williston, and 18 more to Montana (Highway 2). You must have been across the border if you were doing 65 and 3 hours west....(8^D) (It sure seems like a longer drive, though, doesn't it).

Stanley, Tioga, and Ray are the only speed zones I know of there once you get clear of Minot, besides Williston.

Unless you were waay up north and heading west along the high line, that is.

228 posted on 05/25/2006 2:42:33 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: daviddennis

"If she runs for President on this platform, she might carry New York."

I wouldn't bet on that, She has been pooled in NY as possibly not being able to carry the state in a Pres election. Amen.


229 posted on 05/25/2006 2:46:10 AM PDT by gakrak ("A wise man's heart is his right hand, But a fool's heart is at his left" Eccl 10:2)
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To: george76

My car doesn't shift into 5th gear until about 62 mph.

If I drive 55 I'll actually use more fuel.


230 posted on 05/25/2006 3:01:54 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: george76

"....and the people will accept it,..."

NO!

I get great fuel economy at 80MPH with my turbo diesel. F-Her.


231 posted on 05/25/2006 3:04:23 AM PDT by roaddog727 (eludium PU36 explosive space modulator)
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To: george76
Maybe we should write letters, demanding that she pursue it.

This issue alone will give any Republican opponent in '08 an extra 55 electoral votes.
232 posted on 05/25/2006 3:25:28 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: ErnBatavia

NOW IT'S COME FULL CIRCLE. Richard Nixon imposed the disgusting 55mph speed limit in 1974.

This was a period in time when he was being hunted down and successfully eliminated by what took the entire Village of Watergate mob. Playing a prominent role was a young elite lesbian lawyer named Hillary "Butch" Rodham.

Proud of her success in helping to purge the Nixon monster her ambitious goal to change the world and make a difference fueled her obsessive drive. Today she is almost there and with her gift of brilliance in devising cutting edge ideas and developing progressive concepts such as a national 55mph speed limit law, disgustingly unique and powerful sure winner. Leadership such as this melded with political savvy and a bit of assistance from 14 million illegal aliens voting, often; imprisoned felons voting, often; skillfull pre-planning utilization of existing templates showing that the arsenal of human props made up of blacks and other minorities who by definition are seen by the left as incompetent victims with low abilities but never questioned by the media by the use of the charge that their votes were denied, stolen, prevented, cheated out of and anything else that will work as voter fraud victims who are humiliated for the cause of vote tampering.

Nixon? Ha! Paranoid, enemies lists, dour looking, charmless, surrounded by criminals, vengeful, professional liar, 55mph national speed limits.

No, this is different with Hillary. No one can ever say Hillary is like Nixon. Proven by Hillary's never allowing her 5 o'clock shadow going untended and Nixon lacking big fat thighs and ass.


233 posted on 05/25/2006 4:26:41 AM PDT by My_Name_is_a_Number
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To: roaddog727

"I get great fuel economy at 80MPH with my turbo diesel."

I dont even shift into sixth gear until 80mph.


234 posted on 05/25/2006 5:12:30 AM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: george76

Something tells me she didn't poll this one first.


235 posted on 05/25/2006 6:08:32 AM PDT by thoughtomator (A thread without a comment on immigration is not complete)
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To: Jimmy Valentine
I keep expecting that some tattered diseased and long lost group of Yippies will surface squealing about "rights".

It's been done...

236 posted on 05/25/2006 6:22:14 AM PDT by thoughtomator (A thread without a comment on immigration is not complete)
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To: SVTCobra03

Drive'n ON!


237 posted on 05/25/2006 6:24:05 AM PDT by roaddog727 (eludium PU36 explosive space modulator)
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To: GregH

We should encourage Hillary and the other DUmmies to make this her/their central campaign theme.


238 posted on 05/25/2006 6:25:33 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Set an example Hillery. Take a long walk....

On a short pier?

239 posted on 05/25/2006 6:29:49 AM PDT by mc5cents
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To: traviskicks

ping


240 posted on 05/25/2006 6:31:17 AM PDT by KoRn
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