RepubliKKKan senator calls for 55 MPH national speed limit.
V for Vendicar
Congress might want to consider reimposing a national speed limit to save
gasoline and, in turn possibly ease fuel prices.
Sen. John Warner, R-Va., asked Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to look into
what speed limit would provide optimum gasoline efficiency given current
technology. He said he wants to know if the administration might support
efforts in Congress to require a lower speed limit.
Congress in 1974 set a national 55 mph speed limit because of energy
shortages caused by the Arab oil embargo. The speed limit was repealed in
1995 when crude oil dipped to $17 a barrel and gasoline cost $1.10 a gallon.
..
Warner cited studies that showed the 55 mph speed limit saved 167,000
barrels of oil a day, or 2 percent of the country's highway fuel
consumption, while avoiding up to 4,000 traffic deaths a year.
"Given the significant increase in the number of vehicles on America's
highway system from 1974 to 2008, one could assume that the amount of fuel
that could be conserved today is far greater," Warner wrote Bodman.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_go_co/warner_speed_limit
Gray Ghost
in news:Nadbk.13978$Mc....@read1.cgocable.net:
Point 1 John Warner can call himself whatever he wants but he is no
Republican.
Point 2 The feeb is retiring.
Frank
V for Vendicar
>> Warner cited studies that showed the 55 mph speed limit saved 167,000
>> barrels of oil a day, or 2 percent of the country's highway fuel
>> consumption, while avoiding up to 4,000 traffic deaths a year.
"Gray Ghost" <grey_ghost47...@yahoo.com> wrote
> Point 1 John Warner can call himself whatever he wants but he is no
> Republican.
And like the stinking Traitors they are, the RepubliKKKunts begin to turn
on themselves in the final acts of self destructive hate.
Eeeeexcellent.
Governor Swill
> V for Vendicar wrote
>> WASHINGTON - An influential Republican senator suggested Thursday that
>> Congress might want to consider reimposing a national speed limit to save
>> gasoline and, in turn possibly ease fuel prices.
>>
>> Sen. John Warner, R-Va., asked Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to look
>> into what speed limit would provide optimum gasoline efficiency given
>> current technology. He said he wants to know if the administration might
>> support efforts in Congress to require a lower speed limit.
>> Congress in 1974 set a national 55 mph speed limit because of energy
>> shortages caused by the Arab oil embargo. The speed limit was repealed in
>> 1995 when crude oil dipped to $17 a barrel and gasoline cost $1.10 a
>> gallon.
>>
>> ..
>>
>> Warner cited studies that showed the 55 mph speed limit saved 167,000
>> barrels of oil a day, or 2 percent of the country's highway fuel
>> consumption, while avoiding up to 4,000 traffic deaths a year.
>>
>> "Given the significant increase in the number of vehicles on America's
>> highway system from 1974 to 2008, one could assume that the amount of
>> fuel that could be conserved today is far greater," Warner wrote Bodman.
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_go_co/warner_speed_limit
Here goes the nanny state telling us how fast we can drive. Let gas
prices dictate traffic speed and volume. Let the markets make money
out of it.
>Point 1 John Warner can call himself whatever he wants but he is no
>Republican.
>Point 2 The feeb is retiring.
Jesse Helms has long been retired. He died today.
Swill
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