Reinstate 55 MPH

[Raceco]

This was taken off a blog, and certainly will be of interest to all of us. Unfortunately, there is a presidential candidate seeking nomination from "her" party, that will likely push for this reinstatement. Here's the blog:

----- Forwarded message from National Motorists Association <nma@motorists.org> -----


Dear NMA member,

There have been periodic statements by public officials and media outlets
that the high price of motor fuels would be reduced if the federal
government brought back the 55 MPH national speed limit. This is nonsense,
but we still need to counter this absurd line of reasoning. We have just
posted a blog on our web site that addresses this subject:

[http://www.motorists.org/blog/speed-...e-they-crazy/]
Reinstating "55," Are They Crazy?!

I want to encourage you to read and circulate it to friends and media
outlets that may be discussing this subject. Also, feel free to take parts
of this document,or specific points, and use them to craft editorials to
your local papers and web sites that post visitor opinions.

Let's nip this in the bud and make the point loud and clear that the last
thing this country needs is another siege of the 55 MPH national maximum
speed limit.

Jim Baxter
NMA President
[http://www.motorists.org] www.motorists.org
[mailto:nma@motorists.org] nma@motorists.org

[Bob In Ct]

I hate it when this site starts with the politics. 35 years ago gas was in short supply and the 55 MPH national limit was put in place to help conserve the gas available. Right now there is no shortage of gasoline, it's just more expensive than it used to be. If you want comodities to be available let the price go where the market takes it.

Bob

[Ronbo]

Ah, 35yrs ago. The decade of "shortages"...

Then, like now it was merely OPEC tightening it's grip on our nuts.

Unless you've forgotten the sugar shortage, coffee shortage, ect. I liked the line in the movie "The formula":

You're not in the Oil business, you're in the Oil shortage business!

[CobraDan]

We all remember the created shortages of sugar, coffee, and gas. If the price of sugar is $1 a pound and we want to charge $2 a pound and after creating a shortage and charging $3 a pound for a time we all give thanks when it drops to the $2 price with no shortages. Now with over 40 years to have created something other than oil to burn in our cars we have made things worse as the rest of the world wants their share of oil to burn. Things are getting so bad they no longer change the prices on the signs above but just put a sign on the ground so an employee can run out each hour to increase the price to a higher much price.

[Bob In Ct]

Dan:
What is it you would like to burn instead of hydrocarbons, rocks perhaps? Those who have the resource get to set the price. I thought we americans loved the free market system.

Bob

[1985 CCX]

All this will do is raise funds for the policeman's ball.
Life is too short to go "55"

[cbmax]

Bob,

The technology exists to make cars that run on hydrogen. Problem is that there is not a hydrogen filling station on every corner. I can't wait until the day that we are no longer dependant on foreign sources of fuel.

CB

[CobraDan]

Bob,
Well, I know it should not be ethanol made from corn as we are pushing now, GM has made 90% of its new fleet to run on E85 and in Florida there are 4 stations selling it and 2 are for the public and the other 2 are for the government only. The price is more than gas and you get poorer gas mileage with E85. Do a search on pond scum which can be made into a bio-diesel product were they can produce oil from water and the sun. You don’t need fertile earth as with corn and you produce 200 times more fuel per acre with pond scum than corn and it’s a product that would be only used for fuel not something that would be better used for food.

[Bob In Ct]

CB:
Exactly how do you think hydrogen is made? It's made through electrolysis which needs tons of electricity. How do we make electricty? We burn coal and oil. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Want your electricity bill to double? Start producing hydrogen burning cars. What do you think will happen after the first hydrogen car goes up in flames? I'm sort of hoping gas goes to $5.00 per gallon, maybe then I'll be able to drive in high gear on I95 here in Connecticut.

Bob

[Eric Page]