Never said it wasn’t. What I said with mpg being so much higher and gas prices with inflation are about the same they were in 1973 is not as much of a factor to the average person. The impact was a HUGE deal back in the 70’s to many lower income people. I was just back from Nam and still in the Army making about $400/mo…those gas prices increase prevented me from going home to visit my family. Couldn’t afford it.
Right, I’m not talking about saving money. I was talking about reducing carbon emissions via conserving fuel by reducing the national speed limit. Same principle as when they did it in the 70’s, but for a different reason. They did it then in an attempt to curtail a fuel shortage. We could do it now to curtail carbon emissions.
Hey, it was just an idea. I don’t really care. I don’t think we’re on the brink of disaster anyway (and let’s please not get into that) so why would I? Seems like an easy (although apparently very unpopular) short term effort to reduce CO2 emissions before EV’s are the norm, if they become the norm.
Matters not to me. Have a good one.
I had make an effort find if Clemson won since theyre getting no respect. They beat UConn 44-7. UConn was trying to win their second game.
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I saw that Mizzou beat SC, sadly.
MSU beat Auburn after trailing by 23 points. I had given up and stopped watching. My team is so weird this year. Much like our head coach.
Good luck with Auburn. They’re probably already mad after that come from behind deal!
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I never said it wasn’t a good idea…but ONLY IF people follow it. And based on history…they won’t.
I don’t see how they couldn’t follow it if if the speed limit was at least half-assed enforced. Maybe I’m the only one on here who’s gotten a speeding ticket or two.
Granted, like you alluded to, no one’s really enforcing the speed limit on a multiple lane freeway around the metro areas to any extent. It’s probably more dangerous to try and pull someone over than it is to ignore the speeders (unless they’re going 20 mph faster than everyone else or really blatantly speeding).
But, there’s a lot of highway in between the metro areas.
Well we have gotten way off topic but I just ran across this and I thought it interesting.
Particularly interesting is progress on making more powerful and longer lasting batteries that do less damage to the environment in their manufacture. I also saw a video on a couple of more powerful (power to weight) and efficient electric motors. That helps with two parts of the EV equation. The third will be power generation without or with less HC fuels.
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