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Car Fuel Economy and the 55 MPH speed limit
A chicken in every pot and a motor scooter in every drive. I'll bet that would get me a long way in politics.
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Ok, here is a question for the president of "Murf Airlines".
Ok now Murf are you sure youi are factoring in every possible equation?
We've all watched a bird trying to fly into a high wind, try as he might sometines the bird is almost going backwards in relation to the ground below him, so that takes a lot of energy (fuel) to get nowhere right? And I also realize that flying an airplane with a good tailwind may cut your fuel consumption to a point, but you still have to maintain airspeed within the tailwind or kasplat, am I somewhere near right so far?
I've watched small airplanes flying at a diagonal to the direction they want to go to compensate for a cross wind, seems like another fuel guzzler, still somewhat correct?
So as I read your post all things would have too be compared in a dead calm wind situation?
All this is from an old geezer who you couldn't push into the door of another airplane.
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Car Fuel Economy and the 55 MPH speed limit
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I don't want to get in a shouting match about speed limits, but I do think that 55/65, (and MEAN it, fines up the wazoo) for interstate and secondary would be a dooable thing for the safety standpoint alone. I know cars are safer today than when Nixon put the 55 mph limit in force and traffic deaths dropped dramaticly.
Your car may be an exception but I have a hard time believing that every car would get better mileage at a higher speed, it just doesn't factor considering wind resistance etc.
Ok, just my take on it.
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KT;
I'm sure that "Ticket Fixin" is a national epidemic amoung elected officials. Just the other morning a "Cruiser Cam" showed our own Governor's SUV being pulled over for something, they didn't seem to eleborate on the details tho.
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Murf;
Between you and my kids who are seeming always to be going here ot there on a airplane on business, usually they are back before I know they left.
They give me all that business about being safer in a plane too, and you guys are correct. I did fly once to Hawiai or however you spell it and back, that was enough for me. I've always said I'd love to go back there someday soon as they get the bridge done.
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My original post about the 55 mph limit was centered more toward how many lives were saved after the 55 limit was brought in.
We seem to be a nation of rebels, if the speed limit is 55 We're gonna drive 65, limit is 75, I'm gonna drive 85, etc.
Our nearby biggest city installed red light cameras, oh my what an uproar, that's entrapment, etc., etc, I think I'm right on this that like 2500 tickets were sent to violators so far.
I'm sorry, it don't take a genius to understand that if you don't run the light you won't get a ticket.
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KW;
Please don't take my outlooks as being anything personal, they are just my view on things, if I'm wrong, then so be it. You may like red tractors, I like green tractors.
By the way we already have a tax on burgers in Iowa caled an "Eat in Tax". If you "Eat In" at a burger joint you pay the tax, if you take the burger with you you don't pay the tax. never did understand that one. Frank.
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KW; OK, I stuck my foot in my mouth again.
I should have remembered but didn't, so after rereading your profile you already like green tractors. So lets say you like strawberry, I like vanilla.
Again I'm sorry to have upset you or anyone else here, but to me one life saved by slower driving may have been the life a loved one of yours or mine.
We frequently make a trip from NE Iowa to north west of the twin cities to our daughter and her family. There is no way around the twin cities unless you drive an extra 50-75 miles which I usually do to avoid bumper to bumper 80+ mph freeway driving. Yes, I'm an old man and am very uncomfortable in those situations, and yes I understand by the one finger waves that I am in their way, so I just go the long way on the two lane roads where most traffic is slower and lots more room between me and the other guy. Am I saving fuel by going the long way around instead of driving 80, no I'm sure I'm not, but that's my cost of feeling safe on the road.
In my early driving years, mid 50's - early 60's the only speed limit signs in Iowa read "Reasonable and Proper", I'm not sure that people drove any faster then than they do now.
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Murf;
Education, yes the more the better. I'm not sure of their status at the present time, but some form of laws have recently been passed here in Iowa prohibiting drivers younger than 21, (I think) from texting or talking on a cell phone while driving. They are probably much more capable of doing that than older people.
Our farm is on a heavily traveled two lane road used by a lot of people driving to the city and back to work daily. It's interesting that when the 4-H kids pick up the trash in the ditches about twice a year the get about ten times as many beer cans on the coming home from work side.
So do texting laws and drunk driving laws educate anyone, I don't know probably not. Will a 55/65 speed limit with mean it type fines get people to obey them, likely not.
As I said a while back, if I'm wrong them I'm wrong, but these are just my opinions.
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KT;
No one wants to see or be involved in a car crash, but I think about how a crash at 60mph today is usually left with survivors. Then I compare to the cars we drove up till the early seventies with no seat belts, air bags, etc. that a crash at 60 was usually a pretty grizzly deal.
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Crunch;
From one slowpoke to another we almsot sound like medical experiment twins.
After an accident four years ago left me following a walker around and taking enough "Legal" narcotic pain meds to kill a horse I'm still not up with the what ever the speed limit is plus maybe 25 mph above. 55 is fine with me, I'm not in a hurry to get to the cemetary.
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