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So when do we reinstate the 55 mph speed limit?



 
 
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Old April 22nd 06, 07:10 AM posted to rec.autos.driving,alt.politics.bush,talk.politics.misc
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Default So when do we reinstate the 55 mph speed limit?

In article <GIL9MLRT38829.0353009259@anonymous>, Baldur wrote:
> In article >
> (Brent P) wrote:
>>
>> In article

.com>,
>
wrote:
>>
>> > According to the EPA, driving aggressively will lower your

> average
>> > miles per gallon by 33% on the highway and 5% around town. A

> recent
>> > assessment by Edmunds.com using two vehicles, a boxy Land

> Rover SUV and
>> > a Ford Mustang GT found that "feather foot vs. lead foot

> driving"
>> > improved fuel economy by 35% and 27%, respectively.
>> >

> http
>://m
> oney
> cnn.edmunds.com/ownership/driving/articles/106842/article.html
>>
>> And I am saying, having driven a mustang GT since dec 1996,

> that the
>> above is wrong.

>
> I trust the scientists and engineers of the EPA.


You are trusting edmunds.

> I don't trust you.


Wooptie ****ing do.

> But the solution is quite simple: $10 a gallon gas.
> Make your own choices.


I've got a bicycle, 3 in fact. My other car has weathered every gas
crisis this nation has ever had if you don't count WW2 rationing.

> And to his credit, that's just the solution President Bush has
> implemented.


shrub is johny bravo in the brady bunch sense.


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