Posted on 05/23/2008 10:23:11 AM PDT by Entrepreneur
If there's one thing that's worse than paying $4 per gallon for gasoline, it's the resurgent talk of lowering speed limits to conserve fuel.
Because, of course, these lowered limits won't be enforced as a "conservation" measure.
Any curtailment of speed limits will be treated as a saaaaafety issue -- just as happened during the Dark Decades of the 55 mph National Maximum Speed Limit. "Speeding" tickets will be issued and "points" assigned. At the stroke of a lawmaker's pen (and the cop's, too) driving "x" MPH will suddenly become "unsafe," rather than merely wasteful.
This is the most intolerable aspect of the whole scam.
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I am amused at the number of NASCAR wannabes I see on my daily commute. From my seat in the right lane I get to see them all act like genuine assholes behind the wheel. Funny thing is that it buys them, at the most, a few seconds, maybe a couple minutes, but nothing worth risking their, or anyone else's, life for. The idea of commuting is to get from point A to point B in one piece, not to see how much excitement you can gin up for everyone else along the way. No one is indestructible.
Sorry, but negligence behind the wheel is just one of my pet peeves.
How high does the price have to get for the public to demand opening exploration adn drilling in the continental U.S., Alaska and the coasts of Florida and California?
Another Jimmy Carter (albeit a black one this time) and the 55 mph limit?
What’s next? Another hostage crisis?
I know how the Federal government forced the states to lower the speed limits, but tell me this, how can they force to to enforce the limit?
What if they only write tickets for speeds above 75mph?
If not 0 mph, they should try for 35 mph. MUCH safer.
I have worked 10 hour shifts and the 3 day weekends were great. I also worked 12 hour shifts, 4 days one week/3 days the next. Those get tiring but you wind up with around two weeks a month...at home with family rather than at work or burning money while sitting in “rush hour” traffic. The extra time where the kids would have (hopefully) both mom AND Dad home....could only be a good thing for the strength of our families.
1. Try driving from Dallas to El Paso at 55 mph. Once you get out of the Metroplex there is virtually nothing for 600 miles.
2. This will rile the average citizen as much, if not more, than "comprehensive immigration reform".
Most every congresscritter, save for those in the liberal Northeast, will be committing career suicide by advocating the double nickel.
During the winter, running the heater can slightly improve efficiency of a gasoline or diesel engine by increasing the heat rate. Very different from the A/C which adds load with the compressor. The fan is negligible compared to improved heat rejection.
Cue Sammy Haggar.
They sure aren’t fair nor honest in cheese country. To all who have to travel in Packer country avoid Rosendale on 26 - a city built around a speed trap.
will they exempt my cycle? I can get plenty of MPG’s going 80+.
it’s really a two-fer. higher taxes via tickets for misc infractions after they stop you for speeding.
good times... :(
I think cell phone drivers are worse than the NASCAR wannabes.
“Idaho has 75 MPH on the interstates. Distances between cities is significant.”
Back during the stupid speed limit times I was somewhere in Wyoming or Montana doing 80 on a lonely highway in the middle of nowhere when Cadillac came roaring up behind me, slowed then passed. A cowboy was driving with the seat all the way back, his left leg hanging out the window resting on the side mirror. He had one hand on the wheel and tipped his hat to me as he blew on down the road doing at least 100.
That’s when I realized how folks who live out there deal with the the vast distances.
To your Santayana quote I add this (see tagline.)
“During the winter, running the heater can slightly improve efficiency of a gasoline or diesel engine by increasing the heat rate.”
Well I did just start doing this a couple months ago and when winter hits I do plan on using the heat again. Thank you for putting to rest any doubts that I or anyone reading this thread may have had about the efficiency issue, I had no idea.
I’d like to see you do that in TX, in the summer.
Oh great, rather than actually doing something to solve our energy problems, we’re thinking about changing the rules to give our government MORE of our money with which to rule over us. Because that is all this amounts to ... revenue from speeding tickets.
I used to drive some clunkers. Having a problem with the engine cooling like closed off tubes in the radiator could be compensated by running the heater full blast, as long as you got some coolant circulation. Not so bad in a cold winter, a lot less fun in July.
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