Bill wrote:

> For those who weren't around for the original 55 law, it should be pointed
> out that the law itself didn't change any speed limits outside of federal
> property. Instead it coerced the individual states into lowering their speed
> limits by threatening to withhold federal highway dollars for those that did
> not comply. This is the same technique used to impose the 21-year-old
> drinking requirement, among others. No state can be forced to lower their
> limit by federal law, just "encouraged". So even if a federal law were
> passed, there is always a faint hope that at least some state legislatures
> will have some backbone, and not sell out their citizens for their 30 pieces
> of federal gold.

Not only that, but they could also stop collecting the federal gas tax
(and lower the gas price a little bit).