WTF? Repuke legislator wants to raise speed limit to 75.

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.wisinfo.com/journal/spjopinion/283786001803678.shtml

That's insane!

We're in a period when gas prices are extremley high, and this ass cantaloupe wants to make people waste more gas just so they can shave a few minutes off of theur trip?

Insanity.

[Kerrytravelers]

1. He's figuring... higher speeding limit.... more accidents...

... insurance rates go up... insurance companies overwhelming give to rethugs...


Or, maybe he's just a typical rethug, not giving a rat's ass about the safety of the American people.

[Jon_da_brockman]

2. I was under the impression

That going faster uses less gas (per distance travelled)... am I wrong?

[Tace]

5. There's A "Sweetspot" At 50-60 MPH For Most Cars

Faster or slower than the sweetspot for each car results in lower miles per gallon.

[CatholicEdHead]

8. Driving from LaCrosse to Baraboo

this past weekend, the flow was easily 75+ the entire stretch, espically near the Dells. The speed limit is 65 on the Wisconsin side for itnerstates and 70 in Minnesota.

I did 70 and was passed on a regular basis bya group of car after group of car doing 75-80+.

Also, I-94 west of Minneapolis, my experience is that the cars who go the fastest (I get passed by) usually have Wisconsin plates.

[Ian David]

3. That's one way to save Social Security

I drove through the south along Route 95, and most of the way the speed limit was 75.

Raising the speed limit to 75 (most of the people on the road were doing at least 95) is a very effective method of natural selection to save Social Security.

It works, and there are enough wreaths and crosses lining Route 95 to prove it.

[kodi]

4. ops, there goes his campaign contributions from insurance companies

watch him roll back on this once the insurance industry lobbyists tell him no more money

[shoelace414]

6. This is political.. nothing else

what percentage of Wisconsin residents do you think when they hear the speed limit to be raised to 75 think "that's a bad idea". And if the democrats come out against it.. well.. we will hear about it in 2006. even if they don't, they're looking for positive republican political points, since they really haven't had any at least since the 2004 election.

[ewagner]

7. Editorial against it..

I'm proud of our local paper for taking a stand against it. A few years back the editorial page had an unwritten policy which went something like: "If a Repub proposes it, it must be good." Things have changed for the better.

here it is:

http://www.wisinfo.com/newsherald/mnhopinion/285833268920386.shtml

Crash damage increases exponentially as speeds increase. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, "A frontal impact at 35 mph ... is one-third more violent than one at 30 mph."
"Crash severity increases by the square of the speed so that, when speed increases from 40 to 60 mph, speed goes up 50 percent while the energy released in a crash more than doubles," the IIHS Web site says. "Higher crash speeds reduce the ability of vehicles, restraint systems, and roadway hardware such as guardrails, barriers, and impact attenuators to protect occupants."

Reynolds' stated goal for his proposal is preposterous: to save drivers money on speeding tickets.

He could achieve that without increasing fuel consumption or highway deaths by - ta da! - reducing speeding fines. (We also could save billions on prison costs if we made armed robbery and drug dealing legal.)
Wisconsinites should be told how much more a 75 limit will cost in fuel and lives and whether their insurance rates will increase if speed limits do.

[Broca]

9. Democrats should make saving fuel synonymous with fighting terrorism.

Republicans seem to like higher speed limits and of course the higher resource consumption.

Higher speeds consume more fuel per distance traveled thus making us more dependent on imported oil.

On safety issue: http://www.safety-council.org/info/traffic/speed-02.html

[Redroach]

10. Beautiful

Care to bet if this asswit just got a speeding ticket?

[Jimbo S]

11. This guy is a complete idiot

He ran for Congress twice against Kleczka, thought we would never hear from him again. Then he springs the upset over Rozenswag in the Assembly.

He's a textbook fundie nutjob. Not very bright, and definately not articulate.

According to his proposal, the higher limit would save people money on speeding tickets. Joel McNally said if that was the case, raise it to 150 and noone would have to pay anything.