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From: heneghan@ihu1m.UUCP (Joe Heneghan)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: 55mph
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 14:26:51 EDT
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>    Have you ever gotten an interstate speeding ticket?
> Did you feel justice was served and that you deserved to be
> separated from $85 and maybe classified as a negligent driver?
> 
>    Everyone who reads net.auto knows interstates were designed to
> accomodate 70mph travel and some places had a limit of 75mph.
> We also know that the regulation of highway travel was always the
> domain of the state government until 1975.  Then came the 55mph limit.
> The constitution was not changed giving the feds the right to regulate
> our roads; they just discovered blackmail.  He who has the gold makes
> the rules.  The money a state pays in income tax does not go back to the
> state unless they pass the laws the feds want.  I say the feds have
> exceeded their authority; this trick could be used to make states
> do almost anything.  We need to let them know how we feel.
> 
>    If you have ever voted because you thought it made a difference,
> do something with 100 times the effect; write your congressman
> and senators  c/o   U. S. House of Representatives  or U. S. Senate,
> Washington, D. C.
> 
> DO IT NOW. Our representatives in Washington do tally up the number
> of letters they receive from constituents attacking and supporting
> the laws they vote on.  Consider how few people write and therefore
> how much your letter will mean.  There are a lot of insurance companies
> and airlines who like things juat the way they are.
> 
>                                          Paul Bradley
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> 55mph, It's a law we can live without.

This is the most positive and usefull anecdote I've ever seen on net.auto
and let me contribute to this idea: Since most of us hackers would much
rather bang keys than put stamps on envelopes, maybe we could write letters and send them to some location where they could be sent as a group!