| Return of the 55-Miles-Per-Hour Speed Limit? |
Subject: Return of the 55-Miles-Per-Hour Speed Limit? by Klaus on 2008/7/19 0:05:42 Return of the 55-Miles-Per-Hour Speed Limit? Monday , July 07, 2008 Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Hold Your Horses The high price of gasoline may mean that Congress will now tell you to slow down. Republican Senator John Warner of Virgina has asked Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to calculate what speed would provide optimum gasoline efficiency under current technology. In a letter to Bodman, Warner cited studies that show the 55-mile per hour national speed limit saved 167-thousand barrels of oil a day after it was imposed by Congress in 1974 because of the Arab oil embargo. That speed limit was repealed in 1995. The letter read "one could assume that the amount of fuel that could be conserved today is far greater." An Energy Department spokeswoman says Warner's letter will be reviewed but that "if Congress is serious about addressing gasoline prices, they must take action on expanding domestic oil and natural gas production." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377221,00.html |
