55 mph speed limit foolish
All personal travel should, of course, be by roller-skate, and all shipping should logically be by little red wagon over land or by Viking-style row-boat overseas.
The proposal being debated in Congress to mandate a maximum highway speed of 55 "to save gas" ignores the very real cost of the productive time that would be wasted because of extended trip times.
Exchanging a loss of $24 worth of time per travel-hour for a savings of 30 cents in fuel costs is like cutting one's jugular to slow the bleeding of a knee scrape — foolish, ineffective and irresponsible.
Politicians, please stand less between me and the sunlight of freedom and let free enterprise and the unencumbered inventive genius of a free people solve our energy problems.
Jack Mason
Riverton
Recent comments
Lets just stop and think about the "side effects" of changing...
RedShirt | July 23, 2008 at 8:56 p.m.
There may be e very large 800 pound elephant in the room. One area...
twlilly | July 23, 2008 at 4:28 p.m.
Make the speed limit anything you wish, it won't change the mentality...
ediddy | July 23, 2008 at 4:08 p.m.
