Do you think we should lower the national speed limit to 60 mph?

Question

In the 70's during the oil embargo, the national speed limit was lowered to 55 mph. Don't you think its time we do something similar to lower our consumption?

Answer 1

No. Consumption will only be reduced by us willfully reducing our travel or carpooling.

Answer 2

No, because a lot of people i know, travel long distances to work, and therefore lower consumption is still no consultation to the journey taking longer. Plus think of buissness, big truck companies, like supermarket food trucks, have to get there food to the supermarkets in time, so it can alternate in the wharehouse and get things like frozen food back in the freezers at the store and that. It would actually harm the econmy, not improve it. If it improved the economy, they would have already done this, even without oil problems, but they haven't because it does the opposite.

Answer 3

in some areas the speed limit should be 55 but in other areas that do not have alot of traffic-NO. The speed limit on the highway near me is 70MPH.

Answer 4

We recently took a 360 mile trip and used 18 gallons instead of 20 by traveling 55 mph.  The savings was $8.00.  Well, do that daily and you can save enough to buy 10 gallons every week.  So for the non commercial driver, yes, 55 or 60 mph would help.  Besides that our country would use less causing the Saudis to lower the prices as incentive to use more.