Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: 55MPH-save gas? Message-ID: <534@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 08:10:34 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.534 Posted: Mon Feb 24 08:10:34 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Feb-86 20:01:27 EST References: <424@cubsvax.UUCP> <597@mhuxl.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 25 In article <597@mhuxl.UUCP> smh@mhuxl.UUCP writes: >> All this debate on the 55mph limit made me wonder whether >> claims made by the "government" were ever verified. I >> David > >the US. In January, 1974, US oil companies posted record profits, >lines at the gas stations were several blocks long and we were in >trouble. After the 55 mph limit was imposed, the number of highway >deaths droped from 55,000 per year to 46,000 per year. Therefore, >the limit which was put in place to help shorten the lines at the >gas pumps also reduced the lines at the mortuaries. So what you're saying, then, is that the additional 9,000 drivers would have consumed more gas had they been dead in a mortuary? Or that a lower speed limit scared more drivers from driving? "Oh my God...there's a 35 zone out there...I can't go out..." :-) -dave "I'm not the David you're looking for" hsu -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu "Godzilla has been spotted in Sector 5!"