Re: TX: 80 mph signs to go up witin days

Steve <smalpert@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

James Robinson wrote:

Steve <smalpert@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

They pointed to Department of Energy estimates that every 5 mph over
60 costs drivers an extra 20 cents per gallon.

What the ****? Extra 20 cents per gallon? What does that MEAN?!
That's the most bull**** blather I've read from them, and that's
saying a lot.

Nothing BS about that.

<snip everything you said>
How does anything account for 20 cents per GALLON? Not per mile, per
GALLON.


I certainly wouldn't have expressed it the way they did, but in a feeble
attempt to defend them, I suppose they were trying to put the effect into
a form that people would readily understand and identify with. With the
ongoing increases in the price of gasoline, expressing it as the
equivalent of paying that amount extra, puts the difference into dollars
and cents that people might have in the forefront of their minds.

Exactly - the new limit isn't going to make them suddenly go 81-84.


Maybe not the full amount, but there certainly will be an increase.

Up to a point. See top. People start losing the will to go faster
around 70-75 MPH, and it tails away from there. To break, say, 85,
you really have to like speed regardless of the limit.

The original suggestion was that there would be no increase in average
speed, simply a change in the number of cars that would be considered as
speeding. I contend that there will be an increase, but not an
incremental 5 mph to refect the increase in the speed limit.
.

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