ALT-1 Speed Limit – No
The topic of 55 mile an hour speed limits has pissed me off since I was a kid. I don't want some scientist who's never left the lab telling me I could increase my fuel mileage by a couple miles to the gallon by driving 55 instead of 65.
If you ask me all states should change the daytime speed limit to none, following in the foot steps of Montana. There accident rating actually went down when they switched to this. I've driven cross country from California to Wisconsin, and let me tell you it's a long slow drive. Sure you can make it faster if you speed, but who wants to get caught and have to pay a fine? They're not cheap.
Why have we done nothing to get away from fossil fuels? That is the real issue here. If we were all running our cars on renewable resources do you think anyone would care about the mileage? Instead of complaining for decades about us using to much to fast, why haven't we replaced it? Why did we allow the crushing of the electric car in 1990? Why haven't we been using generators in cars for decades? We've been using them in construction for years and had the technology but chose not to use them.
Why have we built a society that strayed from self reliance and farming to meaningless jobs that produce nothing in a virtual online world? If we all farmed and bartered we wouldn't be traveling so much and consuming so much fuel. Bottom line is that society has a napoleon complex and always has to over compensate for their feelings of inadequacies. We could solve this problem without changing the speed limit to a snail crawl of 55 and still using fossil fuels, stop living beyond our needs.
It all boils down to greed people. We don't need to have that big house that requires us to drive to the big city every day just to pay for it. We don't need that big screen television that keeps us from paying attention to loved ones. We need to work at home or close to home. Then we will not rely so much on fossil fuels and the speed limit will not be an issue anymore. Don't change our speed limits unless your ready to let me go faster. I can't waste any more time going so slow. I want to get there and now.
