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In article <BODARKY.92Mar19105634@twiz.cme.nist.gov>, bodarky@cme.nist.gov (Scott Bodarky) writes...
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%In article <1992Mar18.131757@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov> karl@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl A. Anderson) writes:
%>  Keeping the limit at 55 mph saves gas, keeps pollution (including greenhouse gases) lower,
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%Not as much as electric cars would.  Of course, speeders are easier
%targets than the auto industry lobby.
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%> and saves my money by keeping accident rates lower
% 
%Not as much as ticketing bad (as opposed to fast) drivers would.

Spoken like one of the millions of people that think everyone ELSE on the
road "don't know how to drive".

%Things I'd like to see cops give tickets for: twits who don't signal
%when they change lanes or turn; lane jockeys; twits who drive slow in
%the left lane; twits who pass on the right; people who don't avail
%themselves of turn lanes and come to a stop in the middle of traffic
%before turning; people who don't speed up in the merge area of the
%freeway entry lane but come to a stop and wait for a mile-long gap;
%cluelessness in general.
% 
%Folks in this state (and this entire country, for that matter) don't
%know how to drive.  Driver education is much more rigorous in other
%countries (like France and Italy, to name two) and their drivers are
%far more competant.  You want safety?  You'll need more than the
%band-aid solution speed limits constitute.
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%> keeping insurance claims and thus premiums lower.
% 
%Maryland has the highest automobile insurance rates in the country,
%despite having lower speed limits in general.

Insurance rates are calculated not just by speed.  There are many other
factors that go into it (urban/suburban, auto theft/vandalism rate, etc..)
and keep one region's premiums higher than others.

% 
%> Oh, yeah - it save lives, too.
% 
%Not as many as banning cars entirely would, contusions from slipping
%on horse poop notwithstanding.

%Yes, and banning red meat would lower our health insurance costs by
%greatly reducing heart disease and all the problems brought on by the
%hormones and antibiotics they pump up the cattle with.  All for the
%greater good, right?

I suppose that people should never inhale so that they can never catch
any air-born diseases!

Give me a break!  The above statements are meaningless and don't contribute
anything to the discussion (along with the previous messages
from 'master-debaters' ;-) carping about Nader-nazis) on why one person 
doesn't think he should spend HIS MONEY (in premiums) so some other 
people can drive as fast as they think they are able. 
  I don't pretend to like that tactics of GEICO (I moved 1/2 mile and my
rates went up $40!), but it is a business and they do have to find a happy
medium for all their customers.  The netnews articles I have read which
quote facts and figures to support the higher speed limit argument surely
serve a better purpose then jumping down one guy's throat because he care's
about pollution, traffic deaths and how his premium money is spent.  It's
his opinion after all.

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