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July 26, 2008 11:32 AM
Another 55 m.p.h. limit? Please, no
Posted by Bruce Ramsey
Sen. John Warner, R-Virginia, suggests in this Time magazine story that it's time to reimpose the 55-mph speed limit. I lived with that limit for 20 years. It was a pain. Probably it saved gas, but it also wasted a lot of time--at least, inasmuch as anyone obeyed it, which they did only partially. They drove slower than they would have, but they mostly drove faster than 55.
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