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In article <1992Mar18.131757@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov>, karl@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov 
(Karl A. Anderson) writes in defense of Geico's support for the 55 MPH SL:
>
> They're welcome to spend _my_ money on that.  Keeping the limit at 55
> mph saves gas, keeps pollution (including greenhouse gases) lower, and
> saves my money by keeping accident rates lower, thereby keeping
> insurance claims and thus premiums lower.  Oh, yeah - it save lives,
> too.
> 
> Banning radar detectors would help to enforce the lower limit,
> obviously.
> 
> --
> Karl A. Anderson


Well, I'm strongly in opposition to anyone's support for the 55 MPH speed 
limit.  55 MPH is much too fast.  Clearly if 55 saves lives, saves gas, and
reduces emissions, 25 MPH would be a far better speed limit.

Where's your sense of responsibility?  25 MPH would obviously save many more 
lives than would 55.  In addition to one-upping your other justifications,
25 MPH would encourage those polluters to use alternate forms of transpor-
tation thereby further reducing all those nasty byproducts even further.

What about those pitiful dead animals along the side of the roads?  Ever try
to dodge a Mack truck speeding along at 55 MPH?  What chance does a poor
myopic opossum or groundhog have?  Obviously these critters would stand a
far better chance of escaping those onrushing Greyhound buses if they were 
held to a more modest and reasonable 25 MPH.

See how helpful "obvious" arguments can be?
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