Tell Congress to Support Drive 55 Conservation Project

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  1. Fri., Jul. 18, 2008 12:15 PM    link Michael O. | Hudson, NY

  2. Fri., Jul. 18, 2008 6:18 PM    link R S. | 75, OH

    I will NOT drive 55 mph!

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  4. Sat., Jul. 19, 2008 11:12 AM    link James O. | Nevada City, CA

    It's time to go back to 55.

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  6. Mon., Jul. 21, 2008 12:48 AM    link David G. | San Antonio, TX

    This will simply get reckless drivers(fast cars right out of a video game) off our roads and save innocent lives(like me).

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  8. Thu., Jul. 24, 2008 9:53 PM    link Lee H. | seneca, MO

    It's time. Driving 55 mph is going to help stop our dependence on foreign oil. Please change the speed limit back to 55 mph. Double the fines of people driving over 55 mph. Triple the fines!! Do whatever it takes to make people slow down.

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  10. Sat., Jul. 26, 2008 7:52 AM    link Scott B. | Victoria, TX

    Make the national speed limit 55 MPH so that all of us can instantly help conserve fuel.

    What a great idea.

    Count us in.

    We are making a short trip to Corpus Christi today at 55 MPH.

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  12. Tue., Jul. 29, 2008 9:00 AM    link Dan M. | Albert Lea, MN

    This is a great Idea! Americans need to slow down! Not only in their driving habbits, but this is a great place to start!! Just think of how much gas would be saved everyday! There's speed limits exceeding 80mph in these states!!

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  14. Sat., Aug. 2, 2008 9:11 PM    link Carol K. | San Francisco, CA

    Sounds like a great idea to me. It will cut down on gas use and save lives, for sure.Tell Congress to Support Drive 55 Conservation Project!

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  16. Wed., Aug. 6, 2008 5:21 PM    link james d. | Salt Lake City, UT

    Lowering the speed limit back to 55mph is the absolute baseline, minimal action for legislators serious about lowering national gas consumption, and the resulting pollution. Not only are automobiles dangerous to the biotic system that supports mammalian life, they are an immediate danger to operators and pedestrians--lowering the speed limit would help mitigate sever injury (not to mention deaths), and thus have an overall impact on lowering health care costs...

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  18. Sun., Aug. 10, 2008 8:18 AM    link James S. | Clermont, FL

  19. Wed., Aug. 13, 2008 8:58 AM    link Mary B. | Indianapolis, IN

    We have got to stop ignoring our environment. We will not survive without a healthy environment. Slowing down, pushing for vehicles that do not use gas or oil will solve our problems. Off-shore drilling will not solve our problems, only prolong them. We as Americans have got to stop being so selfish and think about the generations to come and how we are affecting people near and far. Further more the way that we treat or mistreat our environment and fellow animals is a wonderful look into who we are as a people. I think this is a great country that could only get better if we change our dependence on ANY oil, not just foreign. If we start offshore drilling we will be right back where we are today 10 or 15 years from now, and our environment and children will be paying the price. I recently contacted my local Representative and explained my view point on this and he didn't even read my email, he just sent me back a form letter, so basically he thought I was contacting him to support his view point on off-shore drilling. The people in our government who represent the people need to start doing so and showing by example how important it is to maintain and improve our lives on this planet which will only come about if big changes are made. Let's drive 55, it is safer and better for the environment. Let's get away from cars and other machinery that use oil. We should preserve this beautiful planet for generations to come. Let's use things like solar energy and wind energy on a much greater scale, these are sources that are there, all the time. Let's show the generations to come, the animals that cannot speak for themselves, and our environment that we cared enough to put aside our own selfishness and make these and many other changes to leave a healthy planet as our legacy!

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  21. Sun., Aug. 17, 2008 9:09 PM    link Aaron M. | Ballwin, MO

    My name is Aaron F Munson and I own a 2002 Dodge Durango. Recently my family had to travel from St. Louis, MO to Wichita, KS for a funeral. Since our Durango is the only thing my wife and our three children can travel comfortably in we took it. Normally I drive 65-70 miles an hour and get around 13-14 mpg. I decided to try driving 55 the entire way there and was amazed to find out I had gotten 21 mpg. There is no reason why we should ignore the fact that driving 55 saves fuel. We are in an energy crises in this country and everything we can do to save money needs to be done. Lower the speed limits back to 55 mph. Our children and our wallets will both be better off.

    Sincerely,
    Aaron F Munson

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  23. Mon., Aug. 18, 2008 1:15 PM    link Bobbie C. | Palm Bay, FL

    I believe strongly in my heart not only will this save Gas and oil but also Save Lifes!!!!!

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  25. Mon., Aug. 18, 2008 1:38 PM    link Erica O. | Pleasant Hill, CA

    I support any legislation to reduce the speed limit to 55 mph. Reducing the speed limit may not be people "want," but it's what we "need" to do. KEEP EARTH ALIVE, DRIVE 55.

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  27. Mon., Aug. 18, 2008 1:47 PM    link Blake R. | Elkhart, IN

    Forget the crap above this statement!

    If you vote for this, I won't vote for you. Remember when America used to be about freedom?

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  29. Mon., Aug. 18, 2008 2:30 PM    link CHRIS C. | Nashville, TN

    THESE DRIVE 55 PEOPLE ARE WHACKED OUT! MY CAR WAS DESIGNED TO GO FAST AND I CAN AFFORD GAS! DO NOT VOTE FOR THIS STUPID CAUSE! VOTE FOR OIL DRILLING AND KICK THE TREE HUGGERS IN THE ASS. THIS IS A STUPID LAW WE DON'T WANT!

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  31. Mon., Aug. 18, 2008 2:58 PM    link M.Steven H. | warminster, PA

    Hello
    Please do not lower the speed limit to 55 Its clowns like this who ruin this country. If you want to drive 55 then do it but dont make me do it
    Thank you

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  33. Mon., Aug. 18, 2008 3:09 PM    link chuck s. | marysville, MI

    i dont agree if i want to drive 55 ill drive in the right lane ,leave us americans alone in washington.

    Please leave this alone aim able to think on my own quite making laws telling me what i can and cannot do

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  35. Mon., Aug. 18, 2008 3:52 PM    link Kevin P. | El Paso, TX

    I dont agree, I live in Texas, that means taking days to drive Texas! This guy is an idiot and DONT LISTEN TO HIM!

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  37. Mon., Aug. 18, 2008 3:52 PM    link Kevin P. | El Paso, TX

    I dont agree, I live in Texas, that means taking days to drive Texas! This guy is an idiot and DONT LISTEN TO HIM!

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  39. Mon., Aug. 18, 2008 3:55 PM    link Rodney T. | Ranburne, AL

    I agree with a 55 mph speed limit. Driving slower does increase mileage. My GEO normally gets about 36 mpg. I tried the 55 thing and bumped it up to 42 mpg. Imagine the fuel saved by this simple act. And the country can slow down just a bit

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  41. Mon., Aug. 18, 2008 4:00 PM    link Michael E. | Glen Burnie, MD

    Please do not listen to these people , they just want to make life miserable for every one . There is plenty of oil , the enviro nuts want us to live like animals . I like my corvette , I like turning my air conditoner down low when it is hot . I like the old light bulbs .

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  43. Mon., Aug. 18, 2008 4:21 PM    link michael r. | Bruce Twp, MI

    55 mph caused more deaths over the years would someone come to there senses, this issue is bull

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  45. Mon., Aug. 18, 2008 4:34 PM    link John D. | Reno, NV

    Don't you dare lower the speed limit to 55!... it is ridiculous. Try driving a few hundred miles in the Nevada desert at 55 vs. 70-75 mph... Reagan was right on the Cold War and right on removing the horrible 55 nat'l mph. People comply with 70-75 which is reasonable...stop making criminals of sane drivers. It is not speed that kills it is differing speeds that kill, and some at 55 and some at 70 will make a mess -- that was proven.

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  47. Mon., Aug. 18, 2008 5:13 PM    link Robert S. | Irvine, CA

    We as a nation have to make some sacrifices, and this is just one of them. I'm all for lowering the maximum speed limit to 55 mph.

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  49. Mon., Aug. 18, 2008 5:15 PM    link Dave A. | Hutchinson, KS

    I DO NOT AGREE. PLEASE DO NOT VOTE FOR A 55 mph SPEED LIMIT. If I want to drive 55 I will drive in the right lane.

    When I travel I want to get to my location not take forever to get there driving 55.

    And by not voting for the 55 speed limit I will be voting for you.

    Thank you for NOT VOTING FOR A 55 speed limit.

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  51. Tue., Aug. 19, 2008 11:39 AM    link SYD M. | Pasadena, CA

    The 'drive 55' assault on simple logic is just one more idiotic SINGLE ISSUE foist on the American motoring public, using the usual 'safe', unassailable petards like 'safety,' the most recent buzz word, 'global warming' and SURPRISE!SURPRISE! Not the pathetic 'save the children.' Most accidents occur within 3O to 5O miles of one's residence. The motoring fatality rate has steadily DROPPED in the last decade even as car use has increased. This is due to the design of interstate, limited access highways, better technology in automobile design and manufacturing. The whole '55' nonsense is moronic and takes its place alongside other debacles in American socio/economic/political environment like prohibition, the collecting of aluminun during WWII(most of which was buried) and the now over-funded and life-stye support system for advocates, MADD. Please, use your intelligence and vote NO on any semblance of approval for this pointless inanity.

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  53. Tue., Aug. 19, 2008 2:41 PM    link SYD M. | Pasadena, CA

    I do NOT agree with this inane and moronic proposal for legislation. The e-mail address for Tim Castleman, the poseur behind this idiotic SINGLE ISSUE notion doesn't even work. It is invalid!
    Here is what I tried to send him.

    Subject: USELESS LEGISLATION

    Tim? Hi there! Your 'drive 55' efforts are one more SINGLE ISSUE rant that
    typifies the needs of those who crave the narcissist attention that
    inventing their own 'cause' generates. To successfully do this, one must
    include the usual buzz words like, currently, 'safety,' 'global warming,'
    and even, when completely desperate, the bland but potent petard, '...for
    the children.' Traffic fatalities actually DROPPED after the former 55 speed
    limit was intelligently dropped after the Nixon intrusion on motoring logic,
    even as the car population increased in terms of seat miles per person. Your
    efforts are scarily sincere, I am sure, as are so many of those who raise
    their personalized issues as representing 'others.' Your project might
    actually succeed, as idiotic as that might be. The result will be a vast
    increase in tickets, lawyer fees, court costs and yes, ACCIDENTS as
    motorists simply ignore the dumbness of the '55' concept and continue to
    drive at their preferred speed. I have a proposition for you. Having just
    driven over six thousand miles on America's superhighways and secondary
    state thoroughfares in the last month, here's the idea. We are going to put
    you in a nice little rice-burner, maybe a FIT, or a Kia Prestige. Then, we
    have you drive, AT FIFTY-FIVE MILES PER HOUR between Odessa and El Paso,
    Texas back and forth every twenty-six hours for a couple of weeks. They will
    drag you out of your miserable little tin box on wheels with your eyes
    glazed over and your tiny little voice begging to be allowed to drive JUST A
    BIT FASTER, like 75 or even 8O MPH.

    I will gift you with a better url for your 'ORG' web page:

    Www.anotherdumblaw.org


    SYD MEAD

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  55. Sun., Oct. 12, 2008 12:24 PM    link Tim C. | Sacramento, CA

    People will need to reduce waste and this is a MAJOR step in the right direction. Support a safe and sane transportation policy!

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  57. Fri., Oct. 31, 2008 7:33 PM    link Name not displayed | Brooklyn, NY

  58. Fri., Oct. 31, 2008 7:35 PM    link Name not displayed | Brooklyn, NY

  59. Fri., Nov. 14, 2008 10:34 PM    link Name not displayed | Santa Barbara, CA

    Please do NOT bring back the 55mph speed limit It leeds to lawlessness and is a waste of time and money.

    Instead raise gas taxes and really encourage better fuel consumption.

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  61. Sat., Nov. 15, 2008 12:48 AM    link Name not displayed | Fort Lauderdale, FL

    I don't want to go 55.
    QUIT trying to run people's lives.

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  63. Fri., Nov. 28, 2008 1:16 PM    link Cynthia S. | Windsor Locks, CT

    What better way to lower our debt to China, stop sending billions of $ to our enemies, and save the environment at the same time. Driving at 55mph gets us the biggest bang for our buck. Yes it is inconvenient, but with our economy tanking, we must sacrifice to save life as we know it. Stop being selfish and start being part of the solution and not the problem.

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