Driving 55 M.P.H.: Saves Gas and Saves Lives? Or Causes More Road Rage?
Once again, the idea of driving 55 miles per hour is out of the closet.
Once mandated in the 1970s — but eventually discarded for 65-75 m.p.h. limits handled by individual states — the concept has resurfaced as oil and gas prices have rocketed to record heights.
A news story published this morning in USA Today brought out the naysayers in droves. An overwhelming majority of the story’s commenters online booed and hissed at the notion that they should do any such inconvenient thing.
Some main complaints are being echoed throughout the comments chamber:
