Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watdcsu!kishore2 From: kishore2@watdcsu.UUCP (K.Singhal - Systems Design) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: 55MPH-save gas? Message-ID: <2119@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 09:20:46 EST Article-I.D.: watdcsu.2119 Posted: Tue Feb 25 09:20:46 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Feb-86 00:41:58 EST References: <424@cubsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: kishore2@watdcsu.UUCP (S.Lang - Systems Design) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 15 Summary: In article <424@cubsvax.UUCP> das@cubsvax.UUCP (David Sassoon) writes: > > All this debate on the 55mph limit made me wonder whether >claims made by the "government" were ever verified. I >remember that the lower speed limit had 'dramatically' reduced >gas consumption. Although the original intention was to save >lives (which I think was well demonstrated) this second boon > . . . >David Huh? I thought that it was the other way around! Can anyone verify? -- Sherman Lang Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo