Bill wrote:
> "XOZ" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>On Jul 5, 3:56 am, "Matt Wiser" > wrote:
>>
>>>Anyone notice Sen. John Warner (R-VA) proposing a National Speed Limit?
>>>It's easy for him
>>>to do so, as he's retiring from the Senate, and won't have to face the
>>>wrath of angry voters.
>>>According to AP, he's contacted the Dept. of Energy to ask what speed
>>>limit (either 55 or
>>>60) would be most fuel-efficient. 55 may have been OK east of the
>>>Mississippi, but here out
>>>West (I'm in CA), it stank. Anyone try an L.A. to Salt Lake at the
>>>despised double-nickel?
>>>Or SF to Dallas or Seattle to Denver? Brock Yates said it best in 1975:
>>>The 55 speed limit
>>>is/was the dumbest law since Prohibition. Speed limits should be set by
>>>the
>>>states, period. If CA wants to go to 70 on Interstates and other rural
>>>freeways, or AZ, NV,
>>>UT, and NM want 75, let them. Like the Sammy Hagar song goes: "I can't
>>>drive 55."
>>
>>How dare any of the speed nazis from Vagina propose anything. Those
>>people in the "Commonwealth" should put everybody in the legislature
>>out of office for what they're doing to their own citizens with speed
>>enforcement. Any return to the 55 MPH is highway robbery, plain and
>>simple. And btw, try driving I-16 in South Georgia at 55...it's not
>>just those western states that an unreasonable 55 MPH would be a
>>police state bonanza for.
>
>
> 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 gonna happen, as if anything states today are more dependent on
Federal highway funds than they were back in 1974.

nate


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