A Call To Lower the Speed Limit to 55
Date: Thursday, May 31 @ 08:50:09 PDT
Topic: Public Policy; Political and Legal News
Fifty-five! Now there's a number that used to unite the United States. Coast to coast the law of the land was fifty-five miles an hour. Just as patriotic Americans worked together and planted victory gardens to fight food shortages during WWII, in the 1970s, with help from the insightful policies of an enlightened congress, Americans responded to the OPEC energy embargo with character and resolve. We reduced our consumption of petroleum.
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