Proposed 55 MPH Speed Limit Utter Insanity!!!
07-04-2008, 11:24 AM
#21
Instructor
55 Mph
Tell the A$$holes by voting anybody in congress for two terms out of office!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
07-04-2008, 11:24 AM
#22
Drifting
It was signed under Nixon. I just like to blame everything on Jimmy Carter. 
In the wake of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, the Nixon administration lowered the speed limit to 55 mph, a move that was very unpopular. Jimmy Carter's plea for Americans to "obey the speed limits, and (set their) thermostats to save fuel," in the famous nationally televised "malaise" speech, was met with similar derision.
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In the wake of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, the Nixon administration lowered the speed limit to 55 mph, a move that was very unpopular. Jimmy Carter's plea for Americans to "obey the speed limits, and (set their) thermostats to save fuel," in the famous nationally televised "malaise" speech, was met with similar derision.
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Last edited by WHT; 07-04-2008 at 11:41 AM.
07-04-2008, 11:30 AM
#24
Safety Car
This 55 mph thing just sucks --- all we need to go with it is gas rationing and the exorbitant insurance penalties that killed off the muscle cars the first time around.
It needs to die a quick death before it gains popularity as and momentum as "the right thing to do".
It needs to die a quick death before it gains popularity as and momentum as "the right thing to do".
07-04-2008, 11:34 AM
#25
Safety Car
[QUOTE=WHT;1566171707]It was. I just like to blame everything on Jimmy Carter.
good one
good one
07-04-2008, 11:36 AM
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Burning Brakes
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Ugh, we've got a 55mph speedlimit in Illinois. . . Though you usually have to do 45 as just about everything, all of the time is a freaking construction zone.
This will be great for taxation by ticketing, I'm sure.
This will be great for taxation by ticketing, I'm sure.
07-04-2008, 11:37 AM
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We have such a group of idiots in Congress it makes you want to cry! Here is what happened the last time they tried this idiotic stunt. It was nothing but a stunt too....... Some of the idiot congress people simply don't get it! It's a STATE's RIGHT issue and should be left as such........ If Texas wants 90 mph and Ct want's 55 than so be it..........
The 55 mph limit was wildly unpopular. To wit:
From April through June 1982, speed was monitored on New York's Interstate highways, and an 83% noncompliance rate was found despite extreme penalties ranging from $100 (1982 dollars) or 30 days jail on a first offense to $500 (1982 dollars), up to 180 days in jail, and a six month driver's license revocation upon third conviction in 18 months. [6]
Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Utah replaced traditional speeding fines with $5-$15 energy wasting fines as long as drivers did not exceed the speed limit in effect before the 55 mph federal requirement.[7] Nevada's energy wasting fine was enacted on April 15, 1981 when signed by Governor Robert List. Motorists not exceeding 70 mph in 55 mph zones could be issued $5 "energy wasting" fines. However, standard speeding tickets were still allowed and "troopers were directed not to take the new law as a signal to stop writing tickets."[8]
From April through June 1982, speed was monitored on New York's Interstate highways, and an 83% noncompliance rate was found despite extreme penalties ranging from $100 (1982 dollars) or 30 days jail on a first offense to $500 (1982 dollars), up to 180 days in jail, and a six month driver's license revocation upon third conviction in 18 months. [6]
Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Utah replaced traditional speeding fines with $5-$15 energy wasting fines as long as drivers did not exceed the speed limit in effect before the 55 mph federal requirement.[7] Nevada's energy wasting fine was enacted on April 15, 1981 when signed by Governor Robert List. Motorists not exceeding 70 mph in 55 mph zones could be issued $5 "energy wasting" fines. However, standard speeding tickets were still allowed and "troopers were directed not to take the new law as a signal to stop writing tickets."[8]
07-04-2008, 11:40 AM
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Melting Slicks
where does it end? these people who know what is best for you. vote em all out!!!
07-04-2008, 11:50 AM
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Deja vu all over again
Yes you are right. Its too bad we didnot learn anything from the last time. We wouold not be in this damn fix.
That dumb *** Bush, whats he done? I remember when he took office and gave a tax break for everyone driving a vehicle that wieghed over 4000 lbs., for his rich cronies who drove esclades and navigators.
That dumb *** Bush, whats he done? I remember when he took office and gave a tax break for everyone driving a vehicle that wieghed over 4000 lbs., for his rich cronies who drove esclades and navigators.
