55 mph Speed Limit?
 

Just in time for our Challengers, Congress is considering imposing a mandatory 55 mph speed limit!

This will save gas but will be a real bummer for us. [:@]

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History repeating itself... again...

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I am sure it is different for each car model but I read where 60 MPH is the ideal speed in gneral and anything over that the aerodynamics several reduces the MPG.

I had a chance to drive in one of the fast areas in the contry on a trip. On I-10 in West texas, where you can drive 4 hours at 80 MPH and still see nothing but hills and dirt.

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This has come up one another "unmentionable" site, and I'll say the same thing here - I just don't see it happening. The world is a very different place since the law was enacted in 1973, plus cars are so much more advanced than they were back then... I'll grant you anything is possible, but the 55 MPH speed limit proved time and time again to be vastly ineffective, an enforceability nightmare and ultimately a collossal failure. Plus I don't think there's any way the people will ever stand for it, the outcry would be enormous (starting with me!)

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The 55 MPH speed limit just won't work in rural parts of the country where the distances are vast and farmers and truck drivers traverse those distances all the time.
It add hours of drive time at those slow speeds.

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Very true, Jeremiah. But that didn't stop lawmakers from enacting it back in the '70s. And ever since the speed limit was raised, there has been periodic crying from the safety-at-all-costs crowd about how allegedly dangerous it is.

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speed traps

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I believe Sammy Hagar speaks for me:D

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I am for it. 55 is fast enough plus the fatalities will drop.

I say 55 to stay alive.

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If Congress does that, they will see an overturn so great they will never know what hit them. If this happens, I will not be in a good mood. The 55mph does not guarantee that lives will be saved as there will be more people breaking the speed limit and be more likely to have accidents with people following the laws, and the sad thing is there will probably be a sick lawyer who will win a lawsuit for the one breaking the law against the people following the law.

The issue is the government needs to propose real solutions, not "drive slower to improve your mileage." Okay, if we are going to make efforts to improve mileage, then lets get rid of the power and fuel mileage robbing emission controls. I find that it is more due to the way you accelerate as opposed to what speed you drive. When I drive 70 over 65, the difference is very little maybe 1mpg, when I accelerate hard the difference is at least a 3mpg difference. The issue is we need more energy and more alternative sources as well that work WITHOUT adding to another monopoly or supporting the same energy source again under the disguise of a so called "earth friendly" solution that still uses fossil fuels if not more (i.e. wind turbines) when the "natural" source of energy isn't enough to power it.