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From: stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Fast driving... Another way to save fuel
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Date: Tue, 24-Jan-84 09:46:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 24 09:46:39 1984
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AARRGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, I guess I stayed out of this fray long enough.  Mr/Ms Molle (I forgot
the first name) just fried me good.

First.  The reason 55 mph is better than fuel flow limiters or other such
riduculous thinking is safety.  It is UNSAFE to have traffic traveling at
widely varying (i.e. >5-7mph) differences of speed.  The ideal speed for
any vehicle to travel on an expressway/freeway is as close to the mean speed
of the rest of traffic as possible.  (Whatever that speed is!)  If traffic is
moving 40 then it is very unsafe to go 55.  Other drivers don't expect your
vehicle to approach them at >> the speed of other traffic.

Secondly, 55 is easier to enforce (though admittedly it is not well done) than
variable speed for variable vehicle. How could a patrolman ever determine that
you were in excess of your limit if your limit could not be determined except
by stopping your car and tearing it down to see if it had been tampered with.
Again, the problem is the unsafeness (is THAT a word?) of widely different
speeds.  Maybe your car could get the required fuel usage at ninety, and someone
elses could go only 35mph, would it be safe for you to share the expressway?

Flames. flames, everywhere, and not an extinguisher in sight.  Why oh why
will some people insist that they know how to drive, when all they know how
to do is cause others to wreck their vehicles trying to avoid them........

(p.s.  people who pick on the spelling and grammer of flames flamed in a 
reactionary manner at early early hours of the morning are lower forms of
life than maggots.  (I would have said wombats, but i think wombats are nice
warm cuddly critters that kep my toes warm at night.))

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