Another story in the news about truckers slowing down:
Truckers ask other drivers to take go-slower approach
A truckers' group says energy independence depends on a 65 mph speed limit, but will other drivers go along?
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The American Trucking Association has called for Congress to set the highway speed limit at 65 miles per hour nationally -- 5 mph below what's now allowed on Minnesota interstate highways outside the metro area. But a mandated speed-limit rollback will be a tough sell, only 13 years after the widely flouted national 55-miles-per-hour standard was lifted.
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There's also a poll in the sidebar:
have you slowed down to save fuel?
Results are here:
Have you reduced your speed to save gasoline?
60.7% - have slowed down
39.2% - haven't
810 votes counted