Comments on: Senator Suggests National Speed Limit

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

[barocalto]

Obams is in favor of this.

Obama wants to take away your SUV''s
Obama wants to control your thermostat.

Obama wants to live in that big mansion in Chicago well you all have your SUV''s taken away and your thermostat controlled my DC..

No thank you...

[barocalto]

Happy Birthday America....

And John Warner who was married to Liz Taylor is a chump.

[skyowner]

Are they out of their minds? The USA already has like the slowest speed limits on the western hemisphere. And isn''t America a free country? Shouldn''t you have the freedom to choose for yourself at what speed you want to drive? If you want to save fuel, drive more slowly, sure. But isn''t capitalism all about choice?

If you really want to do something about it, raise public awareness, launch a national campaign about how driving faster is less efficient and RECOMMEND driving 55 mph, although you should always allow other cars to overtake because (like the British say on big signs next to the road) frustration causes accidents.

Don''t be communist, let people choose for themselves!

[smoker54]

Why doesn''t the media get out of bed with the Government and the big oil company''s and start reporting the real truth to the people and get this country back on track as the greatest one in the free world. We can do better then this!

[delfmast]

editorialstaff net notes: Two percent of fuel saved, and ten percent of 40,000 high speed deaths yearly is impressive. Add a miracle, stop all highway mowing, medians, parks, and the millions of acres of bird and small animal habitat savaged daily during the nesting seasons, as local politicians relatives/supporters, ride super tractors, air conditioned, and make eight hours of make-work pay. The insanity of allowing the slaughter of millions of the colorful birds and animals that inhabit the wide rights of way, for our highway system, while burning up millions of gallons of diesel needed by our farmers, with the resulting pollution, to keep politicians relatives/supporters in comfortable make work jobs, is a sickening indictment of a failed system. Take your digital camera, walk the wide swaths of mowed grasses, sometimes hundreds of yards from the roadways, and photograph the carnage among our rare and beautiful birds nests, show the carnage among the small animals. Think about those 44,000 highway deaths, and how many result from mowing machines, and the insanity of millions of hours of slow moving machines, infesting our highways, slowing traffic, and causing accidents, and raise the issues with your media, political and environmental contacts. There is no reason to mow any further from the pavement than 3 feet, and the fuel, animal, and accident death costs of mowing that are far higher than any costs associated with stopping all mowing along highways.

[delfmast]

editorialstaff net notes: Two percent of fuel saved, and ten percent of 40,000 high speed deaths yearly is impressive. Add a miracle, stop all highway mowing, medians, parks, and the millions of acres of bird and small animal habitat savaged daily during the nesting seasons, as local politicians relatives/supporters, ride super tractors, air conditioned, and make eight hours of make-work pay. The insanity of allowing the slaughter of millions of the colorful birds and animals that inhabit the wide rights of way, for our highway system, while burning up millions of gallons of diesel needed by our farmers, with the resulting pollution, to keep politicians relatives/supporters in comfortable make work jobs, is a sickening indictment of a failed system. Take your digital camera, walk the wide swaths of mowed grasses, sometimes hundreds of yards from the roadways, and photograph the carnage among our rare and beautiful birds nests, show the carnage among the small animals. Think about those 44,000 highway deaths, and how many result from mowing machines, and the insanity of millions of hours of slow moving machines, infesting our highways, slowing traffic, and causing accidents, and raise the issues with your media, political and environmental contacts. There is no reason to mow any further from the pavement than 3 feet, and the fuel, animal, and accident death costs of mowing that are far higher than any costs associated with stopping all mowing along highways.

[delfmast]

editorialstaff net notes: Two percent of fuel saved, and ten percent of 40,000 high speed deaths yearly is impressive. Add a miracle, stop all highway mowing, medians, parks, and the millions of acres of bird and small animal habitat savaged daily during the nesting seasons, as local politicians relatives/supporters, ride super tractors, air conditioned, and make eight hours of make-work pay. The insanity of allowing the slaughter of millions of the colorful birds and animals that inhabit the wide rights of way, for our highway system, while burning up millions of gallons of diesel needed by our farmers, with the resulting pollution, to keep politicians relatives/supporters in comfortable make work jobs, is a sickening indictment of a failed system. Take your digital camera, walk the wide swaths of mowed grasses, sometimes hundreds of yards from the roadways, and photograph the carnage among our rare and beautiful birds nests, show the carnage among the small animals. Think about those 44,000 highway deaths, and how many result from mowing machines, and the insanity of millions of hours of slow moving machines, infesting our highways, slowing traffic, and causing accidents, and raise the issues with your media, political and environmental contacts. There is no reason to mow any further from the pavement than 3 feet, and the fuel, animal, and accident death costs of mowing that are far higher than any costs associated with stopping all mowing along highways.

[delfmast]

editorialstaff net notes: Two percent of fuel saved, and ten percent of 40,000 high speed deaths yearly is impressive. Add a miracle, stop all highway mowing, medians, parks, and the millions of acres of bird and small animal habitat savaged daily during the nesting seasons, as local politicians relatives/supporters, ride super tractors, air conditioned, and make eight hours of make-work pay. The insanity of allowing the slaughter of millions of the colorful birds and animals that inhabit the wide rights of way, for our highway system, while burning up millions of gallons of diesel needed by our farmers, with the resulting pollution, to keep politicians relatives/supporters in comfortable make work jobs, is a sickening indictment of a failed system. Take your digital camera, walk the wide swaths of mowed grasses, sometimes hundreds of yards from the roadways, and photograph the carnage among our rare and beautiful birds nests, show the carnage among the small animals. Think about those 44,000 highway deaths, and how many result from mowing machines, and the insanity of millions of hours of slow moving machines, infesting our highways, slowing traffic, and causing accidents, and raise the issues with your media, political and environmental contacts. There is no reason to mow any further from the pavement than 3 feet, and the fuel, animal, and accident death costs of mowing that are far higher than any costs associated with stopping all mowing along highways.

[lowell43]

55 mps is a joke. It has allready been tried in previous times. A mechanic in Ohio has a mustang that gets up to 110 miles per gallon. It was reported on CNN. CBSNews will not report on this story. ExxonMobil is one of their major sponsers. Sorry Katie Couric.

[bentech-2009]

I support anything legal that will save me money. I am challenged that our cars are not more fuel efficient since the energy crisis of the 1970''s. If the research of Lindsay Williams is true, there is more to our energy crisis. The full story is available at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147.

[whiskyrocker]

It seem''s like most people are already driving slower.

[elz523]

Everyone is asking for solutions. Here is one and it will have an impact. I have been conductin my own experiment over the pas month or so. I am a speed addict and I have the string of speeding tickets to prove it. My gas mileage in my Sebring convertible would normally hover around 20-22 miles per gallon. When I started the driving the speed limit to see what would happen to my gas mileage I started to get much higher readings as high as 28mpg.

I average driving about 500 miles per week. So with an improvement from 21 to 28 mpg my fuel costs dropped $24/week. I didn''t hypermile or make any other changes. I just drove the speed limit. It only added a couple minutes on to my commutes. Imagine applying this to 100 million drivers. It is about the only weapon in our arsenal in the short term.

[eatech]

55 Humm....I have been a truck driver, I have had to drive through states like Ohio, Ca., In., Ill., at the 55 speed limit. Everyone says that it is safer at that speed limit.
Well, I want to know one thing?? "What are you smoking and not sharing?"
To drive at speed it is harder to control the Truck and when you are fighting to keep the truck safe at all times it makes you a lot more exhausted. Then the driver gets in trouble buy them saying that he did not rest enough. "to those people GO SIT AND SPIN!"
The insurance companies must be paying this Senator to start this for they know that people will not slow down. Then the Police will make a mint in tickets, thus causing people to pay higher insurance. Then giving the insurance companies a way to stop giving coverage to the people or making it next to impossible to pay for the coverage.
So for the Senator I say "Kiss My Rosey Red!!!"
If the Gov. wants to do something then do it like other countries do, regulate Gas, Pass a law where gas cannot go higher than 2.50 a gallon and Diesel cannot go higher than 2.00 a gallon. And if that is not good enough then the American public should just go on Strike, don%u2019t go to work for a day or two; don%u2019t take the bus or train. Just stay home, but it won%u2019t happen because people would rather complain than to start demanding something be done.
So in the end the American%u2019s really having no one to blame but themselves.

[barocalto]

John Warner is fool and this idea makes less sense then it did 20 plus years ago.

[hypnotoad72]

Seconded. Our society is too fast in the first place.

[samthetvcat]

---"Warner asked the department to determine at what speeds vehicles would be most fuel efficient, how much fuel savings would be achieved, and whether it would be reasonable to assume there would be a reduction in prices at the pump if the speed limit were lowered."---

That''s brilliant! Thank you sir!

[gkc99]

If the Repugs would get out of their Road Hippos and the yuppies with their Hummers and F350s would get a machine of appropriate size, a lot more gas could be saved without the oppressive national speed limit. I mean, 55 might be OK for the crowded East, but in the rest of the country, we like to cover the ground a little faster.

So how about a gas-guzzler tax?

[a8151947]

The first one should have never been done away with. So we take a lot of time in Congress, and let the oil companies make some people rich trying to make sure a bill don''t pass, all because we did not leave the 55 speed in place. Same as always. The Republican people will be happy, more money for there vote. Did any one learn any thing from Nixon. The only person to leave office, because he had to. He was a REPUBLICAN. That should tell you why gas is $5.00 a gal.

[sleepyric]

i''m all for it. Our whole society is traveling too fast nowadays.....

[berniepeders]

"Simple" logic...
Posted by jmagarotz

Love your thinking. You made coffee come out of my nose, man. Have a nice day.
Peace