Comments on: Senator Suggests National Speed Limit

Virginia Republican John Warner Said Congress May Want To Consider Move To Save Gas

[txgrouch2006]

Lemonskink wrote
Watch and see.
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Yes, watch and see the oil bubble burst after Bush leaves office, just like the dotcom bubble burst after Clinton left office.

DIFFERENT BOOMERS, SAME GAME.

[lemonskink]

OILRON=Enron...you are being taken hook, line, and sinker. Warner is on it, along with Bush and his minions. In January, Bush/Cheney will sit on boards collecting huge checks with the major oil companies,and their children will be silent partners in companies such as Bush/Cheney Oil Exploration Company, and such. Watch and see.

[txgrouch2006]

tech77usa wrote
these same hundreds of millions are now trading in their donkeys for toyotas. each toyota has a approx a 15-20 gal gas tank. do the math...
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We have. The increase in global demand would account for the price of crude around $70-90/barrel. THE REST IS PURE SPECULATION, just like the dotcom speculation near the end of the Clinton years.

THAT BUBBLE BURST shortly after the end if his term. The oil bubble will burst shortly after the end of Bush''s term. Oil will drop suddenly to under $100/barrel by this time next year.

BUSH AND CLINTON WERE BOTH BORN IN 1946 - hardcore Baby Boomers. Just the same Boomer wearing different suits.

BTW, Joseph Hazelwood was also born in 1946. 60% of Congress was born 1946-1964.

GET RID OF THE BOOMERS, AND MANY PROBLEMS WILL GO AWAY.

[txgrouch2006]

REGULATE THE PRICE OF GASOLINE AND DIESEL FUEL LIKE A UTILITY. The prices of things like electricity, natural gas, water, telephone service are regulated. We pay MUCH LESS for residential service than it costs to provide those services. COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS subsidize residential.

Why not do the same with gasoline and diesel fuel? Subsidize the price with other petroleum-based products like paint and plastics.

This would allow citizens to create more economic activity, and lower costs for farming and shipping would keep inflation down. People can stand to use less paint and plastics.

WHY WOULDN''T THIS WORK???

[txgrouch2006]

whiskyrocker demanded
Give me a couple of reasons to vote for McCain vs Obama.
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I DON''T CARE! As long as it isn''t Hillary or Bush, it''s fine with me.

[whiskyrocker]

The "big oil" companies and the speculators would love to have the gov. increase the speed limit. It would give them another reason to raise crude prices along with the barometer.

[whiskyrocker]

obama8years:

Give me a couple of reasons to vote for McCain vs Obama.

[nssherlock1]

How about suggesting an national weight limit for Liz Taylor?

[toldyouso12]

"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."

It is really frustrating and evil when old people, who essentially have one foot in the grave and whose lives are almost over, think they will impose on the rest of us, how to live or conduct ourselves. Our time is NOW---their time is ending--put a sock in it Warner.

Gas consumption is already self limiting, those who need to save money can do so by driving slower (and staying in the far right lane) the rest should be able to drive at the speed limit of 65 or 70--because with or without that speed limit sign, they will do so anyway.

As for what Warner thinks--dead man walking should shut the fvck up.

[naucoming4u]

Why do we bother celebrating "Independence Day"?

We are NOT an INDEPENDENT country anymore!

- We are DEPENDENT on foreign oil, no matter how much oil we attempt to drill in our own country, the majority of it will still have to come from another country, Mexico, Canada, Saudi Arabia, etc.

- We are DEPENDENT on foreign manufacturing for even the most basic necessities of living. Even our military is dependent on foreign manufacturing for some of their components.

- The stereotypical "American Dream" is DEPENDENT on cheap gas in order to maintain the lifestyles that the middle class once enjoyed in this country.

- Mostly, we are DEPENDENT on foreign countries to float our debt so our government can create wars and other wasteful spending.

So with that being said...

HAPPY DEPENDENTS DAY!

Now lets all go enjoy some fireworks shows... dependent on fireworks imported from China.

[deacon20081]

Reducing the speed limit will have one chilling effect. Speed Traps Galore.
I recall impounded vehicles and illegal searches in Arizona that were carried out to make money for the little towns. Can''t pay the fine? Lose your car.

[obama8years]

Vote for Obama and he will also monitor our heating, what we eat, the fuel we burn and the cars we drive. Its about time america become a Marxist Country, for the good of the Mother Country, vote Obama Today. A real genuine Marxist.

[delfmast]

Trucking notes: My first 300K miles in my 475 HP Detroit 8V92 averaged 3.5 miles per gallon, as I drove it, as I drove military nuclear weapon''s trucks. My wife juggled $39,000 in fuel card expenses, @ $.85 per gallon of diesel, while she waited for brokers to pay for constant round trips from NY to LA. Then I hired a 98 pound retired owner operator, 66 yrs old, who refused to exceed 58MPH in daylight, or 55MPH at night. She got 4.5 MPG, from my Detroit, with an engine that is famous for getting less than 3.7 mpg, on the way down, if you drop if from an airplane. Her daily miles were higher than my best speed demon driver, and she never scratched a fender. Discussing her miracle 4.5 MPG with "Lit", a Colorado Diesel genius famous for adapting a Cat jake brake controller to make my 8V92''s jake brake work safely, for the first time, he agreed to teach me, if I promised not to physically assault him, during a half hour paid driving class. Promised, "Lit" adjusted my mirrors to show me, and him, the upper ends of my twin vertical exhausts, and perched on the passenger seat, facing me, as he taught me frugal driving. His instruction, to avoid the slightest hint of black smoke, (i.e. wasted fuel) by feathering the accelerator during the necessary 17 shifts, (the bottom gear on an Eaton 18 speed is rarely used)appeared, at first, to be easy. As he took us through city streets, and up and down hills, in increasingly difficult routes, his Catholic upbringing became clear.

[j0xujahc]

Lowering the limit will again create the comedy we saw in the 70''s. CB radios will no doubt give way to cell use. a conference call would be one way to do it Breaker Breaker, this is Tall Boy, are there any bears north of marker 195 I95?
The only ones who drove the speed limit then are the same one who drive the limit today. Better we enforce the current limits then create even more ''outlaws''.

[delfmast]

Trucker continued: Slip shifting, a tiny puff of black smoke accompanied my rapid adjustment of engine speed, he smacked my shifting hand, hard, with an 18 inch steel mechanic''s rule. I studiously avoided further "Nun''s justice," and routinely bettered 4.1 miles per gallon, for most of the 1.25 million miles on the speedometer when I sold that truck. It was easy, to voluntarily comply with a national 55 mph, incentive driven, speed limit. Our transport system forces reefer drivers to leave Monterey Ca after dark on Friday, with draconian hourly decreases in remuneration for arrivals at NYC markets, after O-dark-thirty, on Monday morning. It is one source of our tales of 3 log books, little white pills, and murderous truck accidents, caused by non-compliant truckers and the transport companies who mistreat them. The actual costs of California exports to the East Coast is gouged from truckers, their families, and their accident victims. That encouraging of excess speed and sleepless cross country trips is unnecessary, deadly, and counterproductive. Market based incentives, paid for voluntary speed governed truck engines, or better yet, with higher bonus payments, for driver compliance with 55 MPH speeds, and incentives decreasing mile by mile, to zero incentives, for higher speeds, and penalties, calculated from actual mile by mile records, for those speed demons who insist on blasting across Az, at ten miles over the 75 MPH speed limit, can be easily paid, or collected.

[delfmast]

Trucker continued: Slip shifting, a tiny puff of black smoke accompanied my rapid adjustment of engine speed, he smacked my shifting hand, hard, with an 18 inch steel mechanic''s rule. I studiously avoided further "Nun''s justice," and routinely bettered 4.1 miles per gallon, for most of the 1.25 million miles on the speedometer when I sold that truck. It was easy, to voluntarily comply with a national 55 mph, incentive driven, speed limit. Our transport system forces reefer drivers to leave Monterey Ca after dark on Friday, with draconian hourly decreases in remuneration for arrivals at NYC markets, after O-dark-thirty, on Monday morning. It is one source of our tales of 3 log books, little white pills, and murderous truck accidents, caused by non-compliant truckers and the transport companies who mistreat them. The actual costs of California exports to the East Coast is gouged from truckers, their families, and their accident victims. That encouraging of excess speed and sleepless cross country trips is unnecessary, deadly, and counterproductive. Market based incentives, paid for voluntary speed governed truck engines, or better yet, with higher bonus payments, for driver compliance with 55 MPH speeds, and incentives decreasing mile by mile, to zero incentives, for higher speeds, and penalties, calculated from actual mile by mile records, for those speed demons who insist on blasting across Az, at ten miles over the 75 MPH speed limit, can be easily paid, or collected.

[delfmast]

Trucker continued: Slip shifting, a tiny puff of black smoke accompanied my rapid adjustment of engine speed, he smacked my shifting hand, hard, with an 18 inch steel mechanic''s rule. I studiously avoided further "Nun''s justice," and routinely bettered 4.1 miles per gallon, for most of the 1.25 million miles on the speedometer when I sold that truck. It was easy, to voluntarily comply with a national 55 mph, incentive driven, speed limit. Our transport system forces reefer drivers to leave Monterey Ca after dark on Friday, with draconian hourly decreases in remuneration for arrivals at NYC markets, after O-dark-thirty, on Monday morning. It is one source of our tales of 3 log books, little white pills, and murderous truck accidents, caused by non-compliant truckers and the transport companies who mistreat them. The actual costs of California exports to the East Coast is gouged from truckers, their families, and their accident victims. That encouraging of excess speed and sleepless cross country trips is unnecessary, deadly, and counterproductive. Market based incentives, paid for voluntary speed governed truck engines, or better yet, with higher bonus payments, for driver compliance with 55 MPH speeds, and incentives decreasing mile by mile, to zero incentives, for higher speeds, and penalties, calculated from actual mile by mile records, for those speed demons who insist on blasting across Az, at ten miles over the 75 MPH speed limit, can be easily paid, or collected.

[delfmast]

Trucker continued: Slip shifting, a tiny puff of black smoke accompanied my rapid adjustment of engine speed, he smacked my shifting hand, hard, with an 18 inch steel mechanic''s rule. I studiously avoided further "Nun''s justice," and routinely bettered 4.1 miles per gallon, for most of the 1.25 million miles on the speedometer when I sold that truck. It was easy, to voluntarily comply with a national 55 mph, incentive driven, speed limit. Our transport system forces reefer drivers to leave Monterey Ca after dark on Friday, with draconian hourly decreases in remuneration for arrivals at NYC markets, after O-dark-thirty, on Monday morning. It is one source of our tales of 3 log books, little white pills, and murderous truck accidents, caused by non-compliant truckers and the transport companies who mistreat them. The actual costs of California exports to the East Coast is gouged from truckers, their families, and their accident victims. That encouraging of excess speed and sleepless cross country trips is unnecessary, deadly, and counterproductive. Market based incentives, paid for voluntary speed governed truck engines, or better yet, with higher bonus payments, for driver compliance with 55 MPH speeds, and incentives decreasing mile by mile, to zero incentives, for higher speeds, and penalties, calculated from actual mile by mile records, for those speed demons who insist on blasting across Az, at ten miles over the 75 MPH speed limit, can be easily paid, or collected.

[delfmast]

Trucker continued: These savings, are dwarfed by the savings from a national fuel tax, up to 20%, on transport fuels, with all state employees barred, from the billions of dollars of effort now wasted in fuel tax and licensing tax competition nationwide, that causes a remarkable percentage of the fuel waste and 4000 plus yearly highway deaths attributed directly to truck accidents. Elimination of the frantic jockeying of trucks attempting to get into mile long idling lines at the tax and licensing collection stations now labeled as state truck scales, will save far more fuel, and lives, than any other single action related to trucking.
The same incentive program data that provides market based incentives for voluntary driver speed controls, mile by mile, will allow perfectly fair sharing of taxes collected by the federal agencies, among the various states, and free up three quarters of their employees now failing to enforce compliance by the public at large, and truckers in particular, to go get honest jobs, and leave the control of driver speeds to the market place. One quarter of the enforcement people now gouging the trucker''s families, and employers, for a few hundredths of a percent more than the neighboring state with less agile gamers in their tax collection scheme, can enforce speed limits, for those who refuse to get it.

[marcpcbs]

Some say that todays oil prices are a simple case of supply and demand. This would imply that Chinas oil consumption has doubled in the last ten months.

I doubt it.

Theres more going on here than just increased demand can explain. Its probably a combination of influences including a group of oil speculators not caring at all how bad they impact this countries economy.

I believe that over half of this huge price increase is because Americans are robbing Americans.

Its been said that if America found it could financially profit from it''''s own destruction, it would blow its self up. I believe that what were experiencing.