Stay alive and drive 55
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“Drive 55. Save lives and resources; yours and nature’s.”
You won’t hear this from our nation’s president, politicians, nor media.
Our politicians and their advertised and self-proclaimed conservative or liberal media insist that America needs and wants only new and additional drilling and refining of oil on our homeland and in our territorial waters; and they almost constantly refer to this as the number one and only remedy and healing to our “price-per-gallon-of-gas” woes during this most unbearable heat-of-the-moment, four-dollar-a-gallon-plus gas .
What if new drilling, refineries, increased production, and five-dollars-a-gallon happens? Then it needs to happen with a lowered speed limit as a truly conservative effort and measure!
A hurricane or other natural catastrophe, a lapse and error in human judgment or maintenance at a refinery. Our idle politicians. Is six dollars per gallon a possibility?
Maybe our politicians don’t want anything getting in the way and slowing down this already planned boondoggle. Why? Because that would disrupt their current strategy to blind side America’s tried-and-true concept of supply and demand .They want to control both supply and demand. Lowering the speed would increase supply.
Legally lowering the speed limit — or just driving 55 on our own — is a sensible and timely means for providing small benefits that will be quick to notice, a little slow to add up and long-lived .
What else does lowering the speed limit accomplish?
It saves lives because for every 10 mph over 50 mph that a vehicle is traveling at the moment of impact, the chance of fatality or injury doubles. At 70 mph, a collision is four times more likely to result in fatality.
It saves lives. Emergency and public safety vehicles will traverse our nation’s roads quicker and safer into and out of our cities and emergency facilities .
Consumers save wear and tear on vehicles. Sorry big and small business auto contractors. But when a majority of Americanos struggle to get by due to the price of day-to-day commodities, we all suffer. “Keep in mind that gas mileage decreases dramatically when you exceed 60 mph.”
Many other benefits include fines and other fees that go into local and state coffers from penalizing the lawbreakers.
I believe that by lowering our speed limits we’ll immediately and personally see more than just the few benefits mentioned here. That’s sooner than new refineries will see production.
If we choose not to slow down to 55 mph because we’d rather maintain and drive faster than the posted limits, we knowingly sacrifice the physical well-being and lives of passengers, other drivers and ourselves by disregarding fatality statistics.
Perhaps your budget and finances allow you to spend your money at a faster rate to fix and keep your vehicles and our roads maintained.
If the majority of Americans don’t want to take the time to make sacrifices and don’t want to hear about this first-strike preventive measure — if that’s the case, then so be it, and hooray for the American way of government.
But, if not, if the speed limit is not lowered at the call and behest of a majority of Americans, then there’s something politically skewed going on.
Big politics and small politicians.
Lowering the speed limit is not just for us, but, more importantly, it is for the sake of our children of all American generations. Not lowering the speed limits will be for our own selfish purposes and will help to speed up our increasing downfall as a conserving nation.
Politicians, lower the speed limits. Do not increase them again, not even the day after our new refineries go into production.
Americanos, whatever your opinion, please inform your friends and family to call, write, and e-mail their politicians, regarding this issue and others, too.
Maybe a majority will choose this truly conservative effort. Do it now before it continues getting too late for us to remind ourselves, our children, and our politicians that “we ,the people” are the government. Politicians agree to be governed ... “deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
On the other hand, if we blame “government” for the current state of American domestic and foreign affairs, we need to look no further than ourselves to know that in reality we are blaming ourselves.
May America always remain steadfast and be “One Nation Under God – Indivisible....” Being government stewards, this is our civic and sacred duty. So help and save us God!
“Seymour, drive slower, see more.” — Presidente Americano.com
Eduardo Briseño of Shiner is associated with At-Risk Youth for Drop-Out Prevention; he is a percussionist and songwriter; and he is a fledgling host of Presidente Americano.Com
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Who are the Americanos he is calling out to?
If you wish to drive 55 or anything below the posted speed limit, thats your choice, but please be considerate to those who choose to do the speed limit & move over when you see us in the rear view. Don't force ME to drive YOUR speed limit.
July 17, 2008 at 6:43 p.m.This is obviously a way of thinking driven by liberalism. More control over the people. How many lives do you want to save? How many miles per gallon do you want to achieve? Why not reduce the speed limit to 45? How about 35? I'd have to research the numbers but I'm sure more lives would be saved and more miles per gallon would be achieved. How about 25 mph? How far is far enough?
July 16, 2008 at 8 a.m.